Why should we care about each other?

Question from the Internet:

“Why should human beings care about other human beings? What is the worth of human life compared with the rest of the population of this planet?”

I think we all agree that we have evolved into a globally integrated and interdependent world. It does not matter what happens in the world and where it happens. It will affect everybody everywhere within basically minutes.

In fact, this global and integral world has made us single cells in a single, living human organism that is also an integral part of Nature’s system!

Thus the “other human beings” are not others; they are “part of me” since I am not who I think I am, but “I” am everything, the whole human system within Nature!

And in this respect, we have all become extremely important, since in integral systems even the smallest parts are extremely important since without them fulfilling their unique, irreplaceable roles, the system cannot work correctly.

And our worth is measured and expressed only in our most optimal, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing contribution to the well-being and most optimal state of the whole.