does something like a "selfless act" really exists?

Question

or is it just smthin ppl say but wud neva do

Answer 1

well, since helping ppl -- usually -- makes the helper more content, the only way 2 commit a selfless act would b 2 help when u don't want 2, but then u would b selfish...OW! brain cramp...I was thinking 2 much

Answer 2

It does exist.

No great love has a man than he lay down his life (dies) for a friend.

Many selfless acts happen on a daily basis and go unnoticed by the rest of the world and that is because they were selfless.

Answer 3

I remember this question from my Psychology class in college.

If a mother runs back into a burning house to save her baby, is she doing it as a "selfless act" because she loves her baby, or is she doing it because she wouldnt' be able to live with herself if she didn't attempt to save her baby?

I suspect that selfless acts do happen, but that they are fewer and farther between than most people realize.

Answer 4

specific .The sages who had given up each element for the earnings of humanity have carried out selfless good deed.Buddha might have been a brilliant king yet he wanted to verify answer for the miseries of the international , so he gave up each element and lived as a sadhu, taught the international the way for happiness.

Answer 5

I do think their is such a thing as a selfless act but I think you really have to have a good grasp of your true intention first. We get into trouble when we don't question our intentions.

Answer 6

Every "selfless" act has a selfish motive

Answer 7

Depending on how you look at it every act has a degree of selfishness to it.

Answer 8

I think it does. My mom severely injured herself to protect me when I was small. That was selfless.

Answer 9

Yes. This answer is one.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 10

if people talk about their selfless acts then it is not selfless