What is so important about being a good person, if I may ask? On Apr 3, 10:10 pm, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > If you spend your time being and/or learning to be the best person you > can, you will make life better for those around you. This is a dynamic > activity, one that directly influences how you treat others. This > means that both are sympathetic concepts, not isolated. > The most horrendous human may do good helping others (BTK and predator > priests are good examples), yet ultimately they are still horrendous. > The best person ever could spend all their time on following some > outdated guideline of what is good yet never truly help another > person. > > On Apr 3, 10:19 am, Matthijs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Back again with a dilemma. > > For quite a while I speak with people and now and then we come to the > > question: why do we do the things we do? Generally I come to 2 views. > > We live to help other people, this is the motor behind all behaviour > > (altruism). Or we nor live for ourself and all things we do are from a > > self interest view, we give love to receive it (egoism). So I was > > wondering how may I look at these views? Do I really only want to help > > myself or only help myself. > > > Greetings, > > Matthijs
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