Your neighbor is whom (((you))) decide, not whom you have to choose.
The Pharisees came to ask Christ, "Teacher, tell us who is my neighbor?" They didn't ask him, how does one behave to one's neighbor? They asked him, point blank, the question: Who is the guy whom you call neighbor? And he, as a story, told them a man (a Jew) was going down to Jericho, fell among robbers, was beaten up and left wounded. A teacher walks by, a priest walks by, sees him and walks on. And then a Palestinian comes along, the traditional ethnic enemy (a Samaritan), and turns to the wounded Jew and experiences an “internal turning” (compassion from the heart), and picks him up, takes him into his arms and brings him to the Inn.
Everyone understands the “moral of the story” - that we should be kind to others, but what most people have overlooked is the deeper, more powerful revelation revealed. Without using words, Christ answers the Pharisees in this way, "Your neighbor is whom (((you))) decide, not whom you have to choose." There is no way of categorizing who your neighbor ought to be. It’s a decision that can only be made by (((YOU))) through a personal experience. This doctrine about the neighbor which Christ, “the logos” incarnate, brought into the conversation is utterly destructive to the categorization of people by their “group identity” (ethnos) and to realize this today is probably as shocking as it was more than 2000 years ago.