Winners and losers? What about the others?

The ethical worldview that the DL proposes directly confronts the common-sense view, which often assesses situations in a binomial state, where one person is regarded as the winner, whereas the other is seen as the loser. The DL supports his ethical worldview by mentioning dependent origination, which is a school of Buddhist philosophy, and asserts that “[…] things and events come in three different ways” (Lama 36). The first level implies that all situations are the product of a myriad of interconnected relationships, without which the situation itself could not exist. The doctrine also…