Reflections and refractions

Imagine you’re not seeing others.

Imagine you’re seeing multiple refractions in a hall of mirrors.

The images they project back look like different human bodies but they are all mirrors refracting other mirrors.

This is just an analogy.

If there is belief in a separate you doing the seeing, then this will seem to have moral implications:

We have a self and there are others, as well as the question of how to relate to them.

There’s a separate someone who can choose and decide how to relate.

But if there is no agent, no chooser, decider, or doer in any of the mirrors then this seeing has no moral implication.

They are all impersonal reflections, refractions.

There are no others because there is no self. The former is a natural consequence of the realization of the latter.

Or said differently:

Everything is US.

There is no one separate from US to relate to.

The self is all about morality. The amoral nature of this upsets the self because it threatens its identity.