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"Are all actions in life based on interest only"?

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"Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
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RE: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
April 9, 2023 at 2:43 pm (This post was last modified: April 9, 2023 at 2:46 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(April 9, 2023 at 2:27 pm)WinterHold Wrote: One essential question is the following: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"?

By interest I mean warmth and love (love  son/daughter so she love you back), give money to employee (so they work hard), give pleasure to a mate (so she/he pleasures you back....

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No. Not everything is transactional. For example, I have no personal gain in holding a door for someone or giving money to a homeless person. There are actions we perform that have no personal benefit for us.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 9, 2023 at 2:43 pm

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