Ohhhhhh.
I still don't really get it. I'm going to pretend that Nam felt he was being led around by the carrot, got annoyed, and now that he figured out the hustle, is using his fresh vantage point to laugh at the new guy getting played.
I'd still like to know what's happening. I'm just trying to point out the flaws in 2-5 millenia worth of moral reasoning. There's no scam.
I am innocent.
And it wouldn't be a sacrifice. It would probably be the most selfish thing I ever did.
What would be a sacrifice is feeding my niece to the bear. You have your terms all backwards.
But that's not be selfish, that's being selfless.My niece is my favorite thing in the universe. I would slay nations to protect her, and if all it took was for me to die, then I would. I wouldn't care who it hurt (including her) so long as she lived.
Selfishness isn't a big enough word. Greed is much closer to the truth.
You're confusing your definitions.No. Being selfless would letting the bear have what's mine.
I don't know if I'm falling for the carrot on the stick here to. Selfish means you're looking out for yourself. Selfless means you're looking out for someone else. Did Shane shoot Otis because he was selfish or because he was selfless? The simplest defintion of selfish is "me, me, me". And like Forest Gump, "that's all I have to say about that".No, I'm being logically consistent. The words as they've been passed down make no sense.
The phrase "I am selfless" is a contradiction. I don't understand why none of you get it.
If you let the bear get your niece you would be selfish because you care more about yourself than your niece. It's very evident that your niece who you love very much is very important to you. So in that circumstance you would do what most of us would do. Sacrifice yourself so your niece could live, which would not only be a selfless act but an altruist one as well.There is no carrot on a stick.
Pardon my Irish, but how the ____ would it be selfish of me to save my life at the expense of the person I love more than anything else in the world? To let my niece die so that I could live would be the most horrific atrocity that I could inflict upon myself.