RE: George Price vs Ayn Rand 🧠A Reasoning On Altruism 🤔
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Altruism is only genuinely possible if you enjoy it. If you take pleasure in your giving, you are also doing it for yourself, which makes it not what it claims to be. Contrarily, if you do not enjoy it, perhaps you are trying to bribe a diety, and that too is not the thing. Mayhaps the thing is illusory, a concept we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel good about ourselves? Giving can be good or bad, but it's not necessarily selfless. Taking can be good or bad, but it's not necessarily selfish. Giving can be good or bad, but it's not necessarily selfish. The act of taking can be good or bad, but it's not necessarily selfless. We need to get away from the 1's and 0's and embrace the quantum nature of reality. Perhaps it shall get done for both selfish and selfless reasons as well as no reason at all. (ツ)_/¯
I guess as long as the good deeds get done, the motives are unimportant in the larger scheme of things. There is definitely way too much public charity, where taking pictures of oneself being charitable is more important than the act itself.
I remember reading a story of a Sikh immigrant in the USA that worked as a doorman for a hotel for at least 40 years or more. Other than basic living expenses, he gave away all of his salary to a charity, and he never told anyone about his incredible sacrifice. It was only discovered after his death that he'd given everything away his whole life. I think that man is a shining example to humanity. !ENGAGE 75
Thanks for the engage! Yes, sounds very interesting about the Sikh, I wonder what the charity was. Wow, rereading that comment trying to understand what I meant, I may have been a little tipsy. : -)
No worries, I tried googling keywords to find that story, but no luck. I am 90% sure I didn't imagine it, but it was many years ago. !ENGAGE 20
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