- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Canadian_MC
Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Posted by: Canadian_MC
Not necessarily, I could choose to give you $20000, I didn't do it for me, I did it because making you happy was what made me happy.
Yes, that is a selfish act.
You can only choose what you deem to be the best choice. You can only decide which is best by which is the most pleasurable. So, in choosing that, you chose the most pleasurable rout. Your mind balanced the options and chose to give it to me, because it was the most pleasurable option (the BEST option, in other words).
It is a selfish act.
Well from what I get, it is impossible to not be selfish, everything we do, we do because in our minds it is the best choice, so we do it to make ourselves happy. However, when doing that you can also making someone else happy, which, if that was your goal, is not selfish.
Right, but you want to make people happy because it makes you feel good to do so. There is no such thing as a selfless act.