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Originally posted by Booboo
Therefore... if the motivation for doing the act is more heavily weighed with helping someone, than doing it for those feelings of greatness or whatever, than by the definition from dictionary.com the act is not selfish.
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finally someone with a good logical argument against my argument.
ok does that happen? does our concers for others outway our selfihs desires? this leaves the realm of philosophy and enters psychology.
self image one of our most important concepts in mental health. self image is how we see our selves and how we believe others see us. i am a good person a good person does this.... if we do the act there is no problem we feel no anxiety, guilt etc. if we do not then we feel a almost physical pain that is the emotional upheaval caused the painful realization we are not who we thought we are. so we make up reasons to make our actions fit our versions of our self image. i didnt save the boy because he was not really a good boy or i couldnt have saved him... ect. our belief in who we are is so powerful that it can makes us do amazing or really stupid things.
here is another point. when someone says that Mr. Everyone just died in a car accident what is the usally first responces. was he drinking, was he wearing a seatbelt. we dont really care that he die (unless he was very close to us say a beloved family member) we just want someone to comfort us saying that cant happen to us. we do this to protect our self image that driving a car is safe for us. our self image is ruthless in protecting oursleves. we will even commit suicide to protect our self image. worse our self image is at a unconscious level. so we dont even relalize we are doing it.
when we do these acts we call good we, are in the end, just trying to protecting our self image.