(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....
It's probably impossible to eliminate some level of self-interest in any good thing we do.
Even if there is no reward in money or in publicity. Or in direct pay-back. We still reward ourselves by telling ourselves that we have done a good thing.
~ I did a good thing.
~ I have a good character because I do things like this.
~ I am a good person.
~ I am better than those who don't do things like this.
I mean, if you've done a good thing, you obviously have a right to feel pleased by that. But that's still a form of reward.
