No, You Don’t And Can’t Love Everybody

“I love all people,” says the fool.

One of the most ignorant attempts that the deluded make every generation is to try to love everyone.

They’re the kind of people who got mad if you posted a French flag over your Facebook profile after the terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine (2015) or in Nice (2016). According to their logic, you don’t do that for everyone hit by tragedy, therefore, you shouldn’t do it for the French.

These universalists take the attitude that because all human life is sacred, humans shouldn’t feel more sorrow over one human being’s suffering than another. By this logic, we would remain in a constant state of depression and grief over the daily reality of human suffering.

If people literally treated every life equally, all productivity would grind to a halt because all people would have time to do is grieve.

In reality, the value of human life is relative. You likely love or loved your mother more than you love mine. I know I love mine more than I love yours.

We humans are incapable of equal love. We’re incapable of loving everyone because our time on earth is finite. If we lived forever, sure, we’d have an eternity to meet as many people as we wanted and….well, that presents a problem because if we were immortal, there…