General Reciprocity Specific Responsibility

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If you study all religions
it's very clear

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that we all believe that we should
treat our neighbor as ourselves.

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And in fact, scholars like Peter
Singer, who is not religious at all,

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argues for general reciprocity as
the foundation of all morality.

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And if you're going to translate
the idea of general reciprocity

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into ordinary language, it means
treating our neighbor as ourselves.

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So this is fundamental
to all cultures.

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We understand we need to treat
our neighbor as ourselves.

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But what does that mean in
a world of poverty and violence?

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Well the Beatitudes actually
unpack that in specific

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and concrete detail,

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so we understand
what that really means

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for us in a world of poverty
and violence