fermun - 2009-01-14
The straw men! You're destroying them all! Won't somebody please save the straw men?
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Dib - 2009-01-14
If I punched him in the face, that would be a very good deed and entirely selfless act.
The exception that proves the rule!
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Cleaner82 - 2009-01-14 Luckily there are those crazy souls out there who believe in what they do, or else we'd be a world of lazy, stupid, twitchy rat-men and nothing would ever get done. We're close enough to that anyway.
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oddeye - 2009-01-14 What you do is almost always a lot more important then why you do it. It doesn't really matter if you save someones life because it made you feel good or because you expected a reward, the most important thing is that you saved someones life.
Again anyone with half a brain realises this.
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Dib - 2009-01-14 Personally, I have to confess to the opposite of what this guy is claiming.
Donating money doesn't make me feel good at all. In fact I feel like a sucker after the fact, and have to mentally force myself to justify it with ideas like "it's for a good cause". The difference is that if I spend my own money, I know what will come as a result of it: I'll have a new video game, or new clothes, or whatever, and that would make me happy. Giving it away to somebody else, I don't really know what happens. It could go to the intended place, or it could get spent on commercials or a steak dinner for an employee. Either way, I have lost some money and somebody has gained it for nothing, and that never makes me feel good.
I do it anyway for the fact that I believe a life worth living is one where you do right by other people and not just yourself, even if that means occassionally feeling stupid and like a sucker. I don't need the moral superiority, and anybody that knows me knows that the thing I resent most of all is recognition or praise for anything I've ever done. I believe that if you've done a good deed properly, they'll never know the difference. So I'm less likely to do anything for anybody if there is a good feeling of satisfaction or appreciation to be gained out of it.
So yeah...fuck this douchebag.
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Cleaner82 - 2009-01-14
So who does this guy hang out with that they're constantly bragging about all the good things they've done?
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oddeye - 2009-01-14
Well done, you've managed to grasp what anyone in the rest of the world with half a brain has known by the time they were 14. Now run along and play.
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LetsFistAgain - 2009-01-14
WE ARE DA PRIESTS! OF DA TINNPOLLZ! OF SYRINX!
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Randroid - 2009-01-14
There seems to be some kind of rule that all rat-faced men, with horrible dress sense, at one point in time will purchase a camera and start recording monologues. Maybe it's some kind of initiation rite into the objectivist tribe.
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Poor Excuse - 2009-01-14
Neckbeard, Blah.
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glendower - 2009-01-14
Because I like being back in my high school philosophy class.
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charmlessman - 2009-01-14
Well, he's a logically flawed dick, but he did get my voice JUST RIGHT!
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Burnov - 2009-01-14
The selfish gene and a portion of the God Delusion by Dawkins effectively refutes this hairbrained argument.
Yes, the motivating factor behind nearly everything we do is personal gain. So define personal gain?
How you define personal gain says more about you than it does society in general. Simply put, not all personal gain is created equal. Especially if we're talking about personal gain that's motivated by hyperbolic discounting.
Reciprocal altruism is present in less sophisticated life forms than ours. Bees for fuck sakes. BEES!
This is a very pathetic attempt at rationalizing parasitic behavior versus social awareness.
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Binro the Heretic - 2009-01-14
We need to get this guy and the cock-smiling ''racist test'' guy a show together.
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