Love of neighbour is a way to disrupt hierarchical, grievance-based, identity-ordered ways of assigning status.14 The natural sequel is love of enemies,15 and the best way to destroy our enemies is to make them our friends, our partners, our neighbours. If we add to that the parable of the Good Samaritan,16 then we recognise that our neighbours, who are religiously and ethnically different from us, have the same capacity for goodness, love and mercy that we possess.
