Why is the purpose of not harming but helping each other?

Question from the Internet:

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them” (Dalai Lama) What is the purpose of helping others?”

In order to understand the purpose of helping others, first, we need to understand who we are and the system we exist in.

While previously we were convinced that we are all totally independent and standalone beings who can make their own decisions and can act the way we like, today we started to understand that we actually exist in a fully integrated and interdependent system.

We still do not feel how this mutual integration and interdependence goes, but from Nature’s point of view — and that is the actual “gold standard” viewpoint — we are, in effect, all single cells in a living organism that encompasses the whole of humanity that is also an integral part of Nature’s system.

Thus, when we help and support each other, we are supporting and helping ourselves since we are all integral parts of the same living organism.

When spiritual teachings and religions are talking about “helping others”, “feeling as one”, “not to do to others what we also hate”, and “love others as we love ourselves”, they all say the right things.

The problem is that they disregard or misinterpret our inherent nature, which is 100% self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic and exploitative. And even when they recognize this inherent nature in us, they label it as a “sin” or “evil” and try to methodically suppress and erase who we actually are.

And that is impossible since any such attempts only intensify and further provoke our selfish and egoistic urges. Instead, we need to learn how to harness and channel our ego's incredible and irrepressible power towards positive and constructive collective goals and purposes.

This is why we need a unique, purposeful and very practical educational method that is based on a special empirical natural science that has been studying human nature in contrast to Nature’s perfect, finely balanced and mutually integrated system.