Sortof a golden rule to apply to people asking for help, or looking for sympathy

[jjjiii]

Trying on some philosophy of ethics:

"Don't expect me to do for you more than you are willing to do for yourself."

Pros? Cons?

Comments

[amadea]

Doing for others and doing for self just feel to me like such radically different projects as to be almost incommensurate. Also, my evaluation of what I am doing for myself and someone else's feel similarly likely to exist on different orders of magnitude. However, I can certainly think of some settings where this would be a good rubric. I've tried to work on this before with my students, for example.

[kingtycoon]

Some pretty Ayn Rand shenanigans there. Then again, I don't know if anyone 'expects' a lot from others in the first place.

[daliah]

"don't know if anyone 'expects' a lot from others in the first place." seriously? you are obviously hanging with the right people in that case