What Should We Love?

We love first what's loveable. However, love also implies a higher ethical principle, a duty of care when we care not.

The less loved or unloved are easily neglected or rejected:
the older child when the new baby cries,
the needy begging spare change,
the impatient driver honking from behind,
the yet unborn who will pay the hidden cost of our cheap fuel,
real people who interrupt us with their real concerns when we are virtually lost in our screens,
the outsider in trouble,
biting insects in the garden,
weeds in the rose bed. 

Instinct attracts us to the beautiful, the useful, the harmless and vulnerable, those who are pleasantly with us here and now. A just and peaceful world requires more: that we love everyone, everything, everywhere and always. That is a challenge for the spawn of self-absorbed predators, equipped with cunning and the combined strength and knowledge of the tribe. We will get what we want because we can take it. We will get what we want until it's gone. However, if we love better, it may all last awhile longer.

I'm sure there is more.

What Are We Missing?
What is love? 
What should we love?
Next: Is love ever wrong? 
          Is there more to the mystery? 

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The Antisocial Century: Derek Thompson on Youtube

We Can't Live Without Insects: David Suzuki and Ian Hannington