"If a lover loves his body" in Mozi tells us that we should care for others as we care for ourselves.

If Mozi loves his body, he means to love others as he loves himself. This is Mozi's proposition of loving both. In view of the Confucian saying that "love has equal differences", he advocates that love has no difference in grades, regardless of thickness or closeness. The theory of "universal love" was first seen in Mozi. Mr. Mo Lao is regarded as the father of chivalrous people by later generations.

Original: If the whole world loves each other, if the lover loves his body, will there still be unfilial people? If you regard your father and brother as your body, is it unfilial to do evil? Are there still unkind people? Is it unkind to treat disciples and ministers as if they were themselves? Therefore, there is no filial piety and no mercy. Are there still thieves? Therefore, if a person's room is his room, who will steal it? Treat people as if they were themselves. Who's a thief? Therefore, thieves die.

Vernacular translation: If all the people in the world love each other and love others as they love themselves, how can there be unfilial? How can you be unfilial when you treat your father, brother and monarch like yourself? Will there be any unkindness?

Love and not attack

Mozi's theory of "non-fate" and "universal love" is opposite to the Confucian "destiny" and "love has equal difference", which holds that "officials are impermanent and expensive, and the people have no ultimate base" and requires that "the hungry get food, the cold get clothes, and the laborers get rest".

many of them have simple materialism. The so-called universal love means equality and fraternity. Mozi demanded that the monarch, the father and the son, and the brothers should be friendly to each other on the basis of equality. Loving others is like loving yourself, and he believed that the phenomenon of being strong against the weak, being rich against the poor, being arrogant and contemptuous in society was caused by the fact that people all over the world did not love each other. He opposed war and demanded peace.