Universal Love

Her insana kendi ailen kadar özen göstermek. Mozi'ye göre kısmi sevgi tüm çatışmaların köküdür.

Mozi argued that the root cause of war, theft, exploitation, and cruelty is partiality — the fact that people care far more about their own family, clan, and state than about strangers. His remedy was jian ai, usually translated as universal love or impartial caring: to regard every person's welfare with the same concern you give your own. This sounded radical to his contemporaries, and it still does. The Confucians objected immediately. They said love must begin at home and ripple outward; to treat a stranger the same as a father is not virtue but the destruction of the bonds that make virtue possible. Mozi held firm. He was a practical man — a craftsman and military engineer who organized communities and defended cities against aggression. He believed his ethics could be tested: if everyone practiced impartial caring, suffering would decrease. That was enough justification.