1. People do good things, period. You might as well ask why it takes 22 muscles to smile and 37 to frown.
2. It's just human nature, constantly influenced by personal motives - I agree with that. But you are also right. Don't let any "him" or "her" sway your opinions... Because sometimes, the only personal motive is to be brightened by another's smile.
You can actually argue that this is selfish, because another's smile makes you happy. Then essentially, humanity is born selfish, yet that which sets them apart from each other is the extent to which they can be selfless.
3. But I don't believe in selflessness, to be honest. Just like there is a constant amount of matter in this world, I think there is a constant amount of happiness. So called sacrifice of one's own happiness yields the happiness of another, which comes back as happiness for others. I could talk more, but it's getting late, and this comment box has limits, I think. It's just my two cents. *shrug*
In response to your third point, I don't think selflessness in the sense you described it exists either. I don't think sacrificing your own happiness for another's is actually possible. What I was thinking more of is an unhappy person, feeling hopeless because they've felt unhappy for so long, if not most of their life, doing something good for someone else, not to make themselves happy, but because it'll make the other person feel appreciated...or at least that's what I always tried to do. No matter how upset I was, it didn't make me happy to see other people happy, but I still wanted that for them, because I know what it felt like at one point in time.
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1. People do good things, period. You might as well ask why it takes 22 muscles to smile and 37 to frown.
2. It's just human nature, constantly influenced by personal motives - I agree with that. But you are also right. Don't let any "him" or "her" sway your opinions... Because sometimes, the only personal motive is to be brightened by another's smile.
You can actually argue that this is selfish, because another's smile makes you happy. Then essentially, humanity is born selfish, yet that which sets them apart from each other is the extent to which they can be selfless.
3. But I don't believe in selflessness, to be honest. Just like there is a constant amount of matter in this world, I think there is a constant amount of happiness. So called sacrifice of one's own happiness yields the happiness of another, which comes back as happiness for others. I could talk more, but it's getting late, and this comment box has limits, I think. It's just my two cents. *shrug*
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I don't know if that even makes sense.
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