Originally posted by no1marauder That's how you and other humans evolved: to feel better when you do things for other humans even if the doing of said thing is of no tangible benefit to you. That is altruism.
I should have made a separate post this is debunked in my edit above.
Originally posted by Wajoma I do those things and others because of how they make me feel, thus it is not altruistic.
Edit: ...and generally I expect something in return in the order of aknowledgement i.e. a smile or 'thank you' if that aknowledgement is not forthcoming then that person is not likely to receive the same coutesy next time. A tr4ade is made, not an altruistiuc sacrifice.
People are found to behave (somewhat) altruistically even to complete strangers they don't expect to meet again (standing up in a bus being a good example). This behaviour is particularly prevalent in societies with strong social security systems, because these societies tend to be more individualistic, thus favouring altruism towards strangers as opposed to altruism towards family or friends.
Originally posted by KazetNagorra People are found to behave (somewhat) altruistically even to complete strangers they don't expect to meet again (standing up in a bus being a good example).
haha "(somewhat)" Here I'll reword your post>
Approximate people are approximately found to approximately behave approximately generally in the vicinity of atltruistically even to approximate complete approximate strangers etc.....
Originally posted by Wajoma I should have made a separate post this is debunked in my edit above.
Hardly; your edit is a disingenuous rationalization. As KN points out, we do many acts of kindness to strangers with no expectation that we will ever encounter them again. And if you are really asserting that before you open a door for someone you are thinking "If I open this door, I'll get a thank you, so therefore I'm engaging in a trade" you're either A) Dishonest or B) Just plain weird.
Originally posted by no1marauder Such acts, usually in less extreme form, are performed every day by virtually every human. If you've opened a door for someone or given up your seat on a bus to someone else, you've engaged in behavior that refutes the assertion Wajoma made in his post.
Matt C assumed responsibilty for setting off the grenade in the first place, guess that's going to be a hard one to prove with your beloved statistics, a questionaire isn't going to cut it D, we'll need to set up an experiment using live grenades, going to be difficult for the recruiters to find people to partake, even when people do respond to polls it is only representative of people that respond to polls and the sampe is already slanted.
Originally posted by no1marauder Hardly; your edit is a disingenuous rationalization. As KN points out, we do many acts of kindness to strangers with no expectation that we will ever encounter them again. And if you are really asserting that before you open a door for someone you are thinking "If I open this door, I'll get a thank you, so therefore I'm engaging in a trade" you're either A) Dishonest or B) Just plain weird.
Plus no more beating around, do people love others as they do themselves?
Do you love your nieghbour as yourself just because he's the dude next door (taking the neighbour thing literally)
Originally posted by Wajoma Matt C assumed responsibilty for setting off the grenade in the first place, guess that's going to be a hard one to prove with your beloved statistics, a questionaire isn't going to cut it D, we'll need to set up an experiment using live grenades, going to be difficult for the recruiters to find people to partake, even when people do respond to polls it is only representative of people that respond to polls and the sampe is already slanted.
Originally posted by AThousandYoung The fact that most of her main characters are heirs whose families made their fortune on stolen land is extremely ironic.
OMGWTFBBQ more people rich off of stolen land LOLOLOL musta been because of guns germs an Steel or such hahahahaha after all looka HOW GREAT the rest of mexico/central/south america is where the land wasn't stolen giggidy giggidy goo
27 Dec '10 15:161 edit
Consecutive sentences?
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