that did not benefit you for the better.?
2007-12-17 01:59:29 · 22 answers · asked by C 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
so none of you have ever just done something to benefit someone else.
done something that ment you would have to do without...and expecting nothing in return not even a thanks.
I find that hard to believe we have all "scrafied" something to help some one and got nothing out of it.
2007-12-17 07:06:51 · update #1
When I was very young I had a baby and was convinced to give her up for adoption. I knew she would always be well cared for. I had the chance a year later to undo it and get her back but I could not rip her from the the family that she was with.
Update: We found her a few years ago, a grown woman now! She is asleep on my couch as I am writing this!
2007-12-17 02:04:46 · answer #1 · answered by oopiedoopiegirl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
LOL. Sacrifices can never "benefit" you. Their purpose is to anhiliate you. Lambs that are sacrificed wind up dead. But the definition of sacrifice would have no content if it did not mean "giving up a value for something less valuable."
I sacrificed my future for committing a crime that had much less value--none at all, as a matter of fact--than the life I could have had doing years in prison. I got lucky. I got a short jail sentence. But I still sacrificed my future freedom, my rights until the day I day, and the peace and serenity I had before committing the stupid sacrifical act.
2007-12-17 03:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't say I made any sacrifice except may be in some momentary emotional phases..... otherwise it has always been give and take, one way or another, whether consciously or subconsciously.
2007-12-17 02:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Letting my first wife (after divorce) keep and raise my 2 boys.
I could see them anytime I wanted (and did). My job called for me to travel a lot and work long hours. The boys were young (9 & 12) and I thought at this age, they should be with their mom.
2007-12-17 02:16:46 · answer #4 · answered by AL in Bama 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The whole point of sacrifice is that it DOES benefit you, either directly or indirectly by helping others. If it didn't result in a benefit, it isn't a sacrifice, just an action of stupidity.
2007-12-17 02:03:31 · answer #5 · answered by mycathouse 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Sacrifices do not benefit anyone for better, its what one does when he feels himself to be great including me too.
2007-12-17 02:05:17 · answer #6 · answered by Debu 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can't think of any. Perhaps those things that we see initially as sacrifice is actually self interested action premised on the enhancement of our own self-worth.
2007-12-17 02:17:37 · answer #7 · answered by Duncan w ™ ® 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Leaving a wonderful life to take care of my mother because she developed breast cancer. She passed away and my life has not been the same.
2007-12-17 02:20:48 · answer #8 · answered by porthos44 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When I was in the Navy, an aunt died and left me an inheritance. I signed it over to my sister so that she could go to college.
2007-12-17 02:24:37 · answer #9 · answered by Jim P 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To stop fighting something, thinking I could control it, and just let it happen.
2007-12-17 02:15:11 · answer #10 · answered by Von 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋