can anyone give me any reasons why its good to do community service?

Question

Whats the purpose?
Motives, reasons, interpretations?
demonstrations, examples?

Answer 1

meet girls, those chicks put out

Answer 2

The purpose is to better the world by doing a selfless act. The best reason to do it is to expand your horizons to new things in the world through volunteering. You can really change someones life through volunteering at even a local food shelter once a week. It also looks good to other people, especially in the work place and for jobs.

Answer 3

Society is created by bonds of mutual obligation. By acting in the better interests of others, we create an obligation, both in ourselves and in those we benefit, toward the society as a whole. This is because we generally do not know whom we help, nor do those whom we help know who is helping us. Even when we meet those whom we are helping, we most likely will not see them again.

Ask yourself, why do we stop for red lights? Why do we not break into newspaper boxes and steal the papers? Why do we return things which others have lost? We do it because we hope that in acting fairly to society that society will act fairly to us. We do not really recognize it as such, having internalized it to the point at which such behavior only seems "right." Why is it wrong to take from the donation plate at church if no one can see you? We merely know that it is not right to take what we do not need.

I will tell you a story. In 1942, my grandfather was 37 years old, far too old to be drafted for the war. However, we are Jewish, and he had known for many years what was happening to the Jews in Germany. To his mind, the war against the Nazis was a war to protect the rest of the world from Hitler and his ideas, and further, he was a doctor, so his physical limitations would not impede the contributation that he could make.

He took my grandmother and my father and aunt, who were tiny children, to Atlantic City. And while the children played in the sand, he told my grandmother that he had signed up, and the next day he would leave for training. He told her that in once sense he did not have to do this, but in another sense he did. If Hitler ever got to the US, the best thing that my grandmother could do would be to come down to the beach and start walking east, to Jerusalem. Such a death would be preferable to whatever the Nazis would offer.

I am well aware of the plight of Jews around the world. They are discriminated against, blamed for economic woes, and persecuted. My grandfather was the first of my family to be born in the US. His mother had been rolled up in a carpet and thrown out of a second story window while her home was torched in a pogrom, and was the only member of her family to have survived. I am so grateful to the United States for providing me a safe place to live as a Jew and worship or not worship as I please. And I am grateful beyond measure to those who wear our nation's uniform and preserve that freedom.

And that is why I have donated thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of my time to Soldiers' Angels, to support our military. http://www.soldiersangels.org.

If you talk to others who volunteer their time or donate their money, you will find countless stories more or less like mine.

Answer 4

Many of us often feel selfish, in the fact that we take what we have for granted. It makes you feel good after you something for somebody else, and not only that it looks great on job and schooling applications, unless, of course it was assigned as punishment :)

Answer 5

takes the focus of self
helps us realize that there are others in this world besides me
and may need help from time to time
just like me
less different than we seem

Answer 6

Helping others less fortunate, good citizenship, caring about one's community....because it is the right and proper thing to do.

Answer 7

Good works.

Personal integrity.

Personal satisfaction in doing the right thing.

Caring.

Selflessness.

Appreciation for the "good" that others have done for you or those whom you love.

Anything else just isn't it.

Answer 8

Gets you out of the house or apartment.