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Originally Posted by m18pak  The thing I've realised is that you should really just give up judging the morality of people based on their behavior towards you, |
That's a great and false presumption, that I am judging people based only on how they treat me, which would be really arrogant, selfish and unjust.
The only decisive part I play in it is that I watch how people behave and treat each other, including myself, and I see them behaving in ways and doing things I could never even think of doing, let alone actually do. I compare them to what I know - myself and my heart. Essentially you put yourself in their shoes and you just want to hit yourself in the head in disbelief that they could do such a thing, and the only thing left to conclude is that you are not the same species.
The rest of the examples listed are totally irrelevent. Those people would not fit into the "humane" category, just because they are nice to a select few. It boils down to what a person is capable of doing overall, when he has no selfish interest or personal agenda involved, not whether or not there is someone somewhere he is being nice to for whatever reason.