“We have a moral obligation to protect life” — then what?!

Question from the Internet:

“Every person has a moral obligation to protect, preserve, and respect human life. As a person, how can you contribute to protecting the sacredness of human life?”

While I fully agree with that “moral obligation”, we can see from history, from contemporary events, and even within our own lives how much we do not care about protecting, preserving, respecting the lives of others, sometimes even our own.

Moral obligations, ideologies, philosophies, and religions are not enough to make us keep this moral obligation, many times those breaking this obligation who speak, preach about it the most.

We will start respecting, protecting, preserving the lives of others only, when we start considering their lives at least as important if not more important than our own life. This is seemingly a “mission impossible” since we are all born with a completely “self-loving”, self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic nature, and we instinctively — knowingly, unknowingly — survive, succeed at the expense of others.

Still, we can learn and actually feel that the lives of others are as important or even more important as ours when we start tangibly feeling — with the help of a unique, purposeful and practical method — that we are all but single cells of a single, closed, living, mutually integrated Human organism.

Only when we start tangibly, viscerally feel our total interdependence and that “true life” is the totally selfless, unconditionally serving circulation, communication between us, then we will also understand the true meaning of the well-known principle of “love others as yourself”.

After all, when we are all cells of the same living organism, then those “others” are part of my actual self.

This is what we have to reach according to Nature’s evolutionary plan, that drives the whole system — including Humanity as an integral part of Nature — towards a most optimal, final integration. Our Human advantage over other animals is that we have to reach, facilitate this Nature-like integration consciously, proactively, above and against our inherent nature, tendencies.

By this, we become Nature’s only fully conscious, seamlessly integrated but at the same time, independent observers and partners.