Why am I an individual disappointed with humanity? Because I believe that we are all self-centered animals. We have a natural propensity to extol out the ego. We were born inclined to worship the ‘self’. Because of our immoderate love of self, we have the spontaneous tendency to put our ego at the center of the world. We think that the universe revolves around the self. However, since our self-hierarchical occupies the top of the scale of importance, we act only in view of our own benefit. Our attitudes aim at satisfying only the petty needs of our outsized ego. I hope one day we can see what is the most important: all human beings, regardless of social class, color, gender, race or creed… 😦 ♥

“Beneficence is a duty. He who often practices this, and sees his beneficence purpose success, comes at last really to love him whom he has benefited. When, therefore, it is said, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” this does not mean, “Thou shalt first of all love, and by means of love (in the next place) do him good”; but: “Do good to thy neighbor, and this beneficence will produce in thee the love of men (as a settled habit of inclination to beneficence).”
— Immanuel Kant, Metaphysical Elements of Ethics (1780)

Children of the Dust: Eric Valli Lugging bricks, inhaling clay dust India’s untouchable boys trade their health for a pittance in a primitive brickyards. With no future besides work, they are victims of a society too poor to enforce child labor laws.