It is wrong to believe we can attain salvation for ourselves, but it isn't wrong to strive to be more caring people. Jesus gave us one commandment, and that was to love others. It isn't always easy, but Jesus told us it wouldn't be easy. He also said it is very easy to care for people who care for us, and therefore it is meaningless. It is hard to care for people who put you down and hurt you and fight for immoral things, but that is when it means something, to still be able to care for them.

That doesn't mean it is wrong to feel hurt or that we should deliberately put ourselves in a situation where we are going to be hurt, but it means trying not to become bitter and hard-hearted. We should be like the good samaritan.

But remember that the Christian God is also a God of justice and hates injustice so much that those who do bad things are damned for all eternity. There are two sides of the coin. Jesus tells us that we should love people and not hate those who hate us. That doesn't mean we shouldn't apprehend criminals or that we should put ourselves in dangerous situations or that we should become doormats. It just means that instead of nasty, hateful and vengeful thoughts we should encourage loving and forgiving thoughts towards others. Hatred doesn't achieve anything.

Everyone is meant to be loving towards each other, but it doesn't happen because people have hard and cold hearts. That means it is all the harder for us to keep love and compassion in our hearts. It is easy to become immoral because everyone else is doing it. But that doesn't make it right. We have to try and keep our values and caring natures because if we don't, we become cold hearted too. We need to be trying to spread love and soften hearts if there is to be any future for humanity, not hardening our own.