Humanise Me

Ethics is not more or less than a rational attempt to discover how to live better, how to have a good life; but not just a good life, a good human life. To achieve this, we need to understand we are social beings; that is to say, we cannot survive if we don’t relate with others and establish bounds with them. We are incomplete creatures, for example we cannot survive without being fed by another person, animals can. Would you be happy if you were the last living human on earth? You would posses everything you’d ever wanted to own, but they would just be valueless objects. Would you still call yourself a human being? We are humans because we live within a society where we are “humanized”, and this is a reciprocal process: for me to be treated as human I must treat others as humans, right? The story called “Human Is” by Philip.K.Dick, revolves around this concept: one of the main characters behaves and treats his wife as a piece of furniture, showing no feelings towards anyone or anything at all, so at the end of the story he is treated the same way by his wife.
I believe that to have a good life you need to built worthy relationships and value them because they are going to give you things that material objects don’t such as support, love, affection, friendship, etc; and not spend all your life working hard and trodding over others trying to gain power so as to own material things.