general ignorance

[spoiltheshow]

we do good things because:

• there is a god worth fearing;
• we share a common goal of advancing civilisation;
• we revel in the delight of peer approval;
• social structure demands it;
• we have a natural disposition towards it; or

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My theory is...

[the_town_cryer]

that a combination of all those reasons lead us to do good things - if people do have a natural inclination to do good things(and several do) it would be because - we believe there is some inherent system of rewards and punishments in the universe, because we want people to like us, and because hey, you have to do something.

I suppose what I'm saying is - there may be no such thing as pure altruism, but that doesn't mean there's no such thing a sincerely good deed.....