What is selfish about empathizing with another person?

On Apr 5, 1:31 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> We're all basically selfish.  We do what makes us feel good about
> ourselves.  What makes us feel good about ourselves is often mirrored in how
> we see others feel about us.  So it pays to make your friends and family
> love you.  If you can.
>
> dj
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, 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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