RE: Why be good?
June 4, 2015 at 12:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2015 at 12:14 am by henryp.)
(June 3, 2015 at 5:18 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(June 2, 2015 at 2:39 pm)wallym Wrote: I agree. This is why I'm not worried about being good. The impetus for everyone to behave is your guys' thing. I'm interested in behaving in my own self-interest. Which can overlap with 'being good', but is a very different motivation.
I hope that works out for you.
The idea that it is a choice is sort of an interesting issue. To behave any other way would be pretending to be someone I'm not. So I hope it works out for me too, because it's not like I can fix it by pretending there is a God, or pretending that I give a shit about earthquake victims. I'm too self-aware for that level of make-believe.
From reading this thread, it sounds like a lot of you feel you have no choice but to care. That the feelings are inevitable. It's odd that the response to me not caring always has negative connotations. Your empathizing is involuntary product of evolution, but my not empathizing is something I'm choosing to do wrong? There is something that doesn't add up there.
(June 4, 2015 at 12:11 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:(June 3, 2015 at 11:58 pm)wallym Wrote: Believing in something irrational for some emotional rewards is the cornerstone of something we rail against here daily.
Not at all. You see, not all beliefs are irrational. And you really shouldn't be railing against it, anyway -- it's not in your self interest to advise your victims of your intentions.
Tough to have a circle jerk without a bunch of jerks.
