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What if we turned that around? "I don't believe in selfishness" - You get an ice cream because you've seen other people do it and have watched adverts and want
by Gravityloss 12y ago
What if we turned that around? "I don't believe in selfishness"
- You get an ice cream because you've seen other people do it and have watched adverts and want to fit in. You've gotten an image that it's "a thing that people do", eating ice cream. You don't actually even like ice cream. You just don't want to offend anyone who does.
- You help others because helping is a root cause, there's no "because" of some other thing.
- You study, make a career just because, firstly, it's expected of you, by your parents, by your spouse, you can better support your children. Secondly your workplace and society rewards you with money, which is just a token of how much value you have added : in other words, how much you have helped others.
- Lawtonfogle 12y agoI've read research that found that the more anonymous a good deed became, the less likely people were to do it. I also remember reading research that found that the more guilty a person feels, the more charitable they are in an anonymous setting. This was all years ago, but in general, there are some ways to test why people are motivated to do something.