""If I let a person next to me starve to death by not interacting with him at all, I haven't actively harmed him. But that's not enough.""

No No!

That would be entirely inconsistent with my statement. It is implicit in placing the wellfare of others above your personal desires, that you could not stand idly by, and watch harm come to them by any means.

We are talking absolutes here, and my definition is an aspirational one. It cannot ever translate into reality, because we are not dealing in infinitely good human beings.

However, it is a level to which we could, if we so choose, all aspire, and those of us who come closest to success, would be incapable, in practical terms,of doing wrong, or standing by, inactive, when wrong is being done.

Don T.