Reply #66: Much mention of the SELF here....

[Ron Green]

and I think that's essential to this discussion. If the self is seen as only the individual, then what's in the interest of self may not be what's in the interest of another. But to the extent that the "self" is the Universal, which includes all humans, and maybe to some extent other creatures too, then morality simply means to do no harm to any PART of the self. If there is an infinite existence beyond time and space, then this life on earth is small indeed, and differences among people are pretty much an illusion. I think that to understand our separateness as false and our connectedness as real is to be moral.