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Originally Posted by mikemover
Yep. If you want to get truly technical and analytical about it, there is NO such thing as a TRULY selfless act. If you do something nice or helpful or charitable for someone, and you receive no financial reward, or service in return, or any other tangible compensation, yet you "feel good" about it, then there is still some small degree of self-serving motivation.
Mike
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The trick is to do something you don't want to do, but then you can't do something you don't want to do. At the risk of being a pretentious *********, this was noticed by the ancient greeks. Nothing new under the sun.
A guy I worked with used to say that 'nice people got off on being nice'. He was a moron (with a Ph.D).