Even though it may look like kindness if you jumped in front of a truck to save a loved one from getting hurt or killed, could that act actually be motivated by selfishness? Maybe you just could not stand to live without them, so you took the fall instead....... and wouldn't you then be doing it for yourself. I hate philosophy..... it gives me a headache!
2006-07-13 02:07:44 · 10 answers · asked by Katie My Katie 3 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Absolutely, if you're doing it so that people will recognize you and say "look at that good person, i wish i was like him / her." Still, I'd rather have a good deed done selfishly than a nuetral or bad deed done selfishly.
2006-07-13 02:11:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but the reason people do things only matter to people with too much time on their hands. It's what done is what really matters. They saved someone else's life. I don't know why someone would decide to think that is selfishness (even if it was) unless they are jealous and thus being motivated by their own selfishness to think that. Any situation could be looked like this that is why what a person does matters more than why a person does it
2006-07-13 02:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, yes. that is selfish. but you still want them to live. you know that really they will have a better life after this. some do that stuff for awards or the clapping afterwards or something like that. a selfish act and a selfless act are usually aren't the same. but they can really have the same intentions. but no one other than you knows what it was for.
2006-07-13 02:20:52 · answer #3 · answered by sherbert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i will respond to this question, understanding finished nicely that you received't %. it because the superb answer. yet i'm getting 2 factors for answering. i will now flow and ask a question lowering my entire by 5 factors. this can make my answering this question thoroughly selfless. To be intense, i do not imagine there are selfless acts. each and every difficulty we do, we do for a reason and that is self pastime. Jesus died on the flow, yet he had a reason and that reason became to keep our souls (if you're a Christian). this would possibly not be able to be considered selfless for he (and his father) benefited from his moves. (i quite will ask a question now!)
2016-10-14 10:23:52 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
while let me unveil to you that i'm not a phylosopher but then that is not the matter of discussion okay. so base on your question. That person that try to save life is not selfish in the sense of risking his/her life to jump from truck in orderto save or rescue life. however, you know that obviously anythng can happen with that person which does not guarantee his/her safety.
2006-07-13 02:30:32 · answer #5 · answered by haggizaro 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it can't!! If it is selfish at it's core then it is not a selfless act!! Plain and simple!!
2006-07-13 02:12:01 · answer #6 · answered by Jimmy Pete 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes at ther core all acts r selfish. we do kind things to others because it makes us feel good.....and anything u do that makes u feel good is done for yourself and so is selfish
2006-07-13 02:13:05 · answer #7 · answered by mom fucker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it could be selfish if you get off on helping people and you have more pressing matters to attend to.
2006-07-13 02:12:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definately yes.
2006-07-13 02:11:48 · answer #9 · answered by PetsRule 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No act is truly selfless.
2006-07-13 02:13:24 · answer #10 · answered by AsianPersuasion :) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋