It's a natural part of the human experience. On Apr 8, 9:25 am, Matthijs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > ""Minds Eye"" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<minds-eye%[email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
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