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Originally Posted by / / ///AutoZone
ok. three honest questions:
1) should we view all families as equally important to our own family?
2) should we view all races as equally important to our own race?
3) why, or why not, should these two questions have consistent answers?
Who is the "we" here?
I care about my family more than your family. But this is because it is
my family, not because it is more important than your family. I talk to and interact with my family frequently, my actions impact their lives and vice versa, while your family has almost nothing to do with my life (and vice versa). I don't think any of this implies that
you should view my family as more important than your family.
As for race, I care little about being white as it is too diffuse to function as an identity. My identity as an American is much more salient to me, but this is only partially related to race. The saliency of my cultural identity as an American to me doesn't however doesn't imply that Americans are any more important than other cultures or ethnicities, just that they are more important in my life and as part of my own sense of self. If you care about your race, fine, whatever, I don't really care, but I don't see how that means I should care about it any more than I do now.
These two questions have consistent answers, so your third question is irrelevant.