Does altruism exist or is it just a word?

[devilof76]

I'm especially touched by pix's noble sacrifice for the butt licker's sake.

 

[thenammagazine]

I'm especially touched by pix's noble sacrifice for the butt licker's sake.

Psh, not altruism, Pixy did it for the thrill of having his bits tongued.

 

[devilof76]

Damn. The world gets bleaker and bleaker.

 

[surfin4]

Its at odds with the system of capitalism.......unless its some tax deductible charity contribution

 

[thenammagazine]

Its at odds with the system of capitalism.......unless its some tax deductible charity contribution

I think we face a bigger threat from legions of self-entitled, pinheaded nitwits than anything else. The Joker 2.0 thread proves this.

 

[Maglor]

^^^ Thought you gave up on the DC section.

 

[devilof76]

Its at odds with the system of capitalism.......unless its some tax deductible charity contribution

That's a fact. So is having to donate money to get a tax deduction.

I think we face a bigger threat from legions of self-entitled, pinheaded nitwits than anything else.

What do you think spawned those legions?

Sure as hell weren't capitalism...

 

[thenammagazine]

^^^ Thought you gave up on the DC section.

Just about. No ____ing way in hell I'm going in there unless Dave gives me a pass to go ape____.

What do you think spawned those legions?

Sure as hell weren't capitalism...

Nope, it was ____ty parents telling their idiot kids that they're always right and everybody owes them everything.

 

[ChunkyZergling]

Damn this thread took off. Ummm. Ever see that nature show in which a whole pride of lions got killed except one female? Then she found a baby wildebeest and took it on as her cub? It was starving because it couldn't drink her milk. Eventually a wandering male lion murdered them both. What does that have to do with altruism? I don't know but that ____ was sad.

 

[ChunkyZergling]

Guess she was an altruistic lion. Maybe she was just lonely. Think she was lonely because I remember she became its mother because her own cubs got killed.

 

[devilof76]

Whatever it was, I can guarantee it had nothing to do with altruism.

Nope, it was ____ty parents telling their idiot kids that they're always right and everybody owes them everything.

And the flip side of the idea that it's moral to devote the lion's share of one's concern to others, is that others come to expect that other people will always put them first.

If they don't, there's some kind of sin being committed. I'm surprised that more people don't see altruism for the scam that it is. Naivete? I don't know. If you consider the scale of the evil involved, it makes sense that most people can't believe it.

 

[ChunkyZergling]

It had nothing to do with altruism.

So then you think it was loneliness and mothering instincts and such?

 

[devilof76]

It was instinct of some kind. That's all they have. An animal's code of values is automatic. It doesn't select modes of behavior, it simply acts according to the impulses its brain sends. They can't modify it for special occasions that instinct did not prepare them for.

Humans have free will. They can choose what standards they will consider to be right or wrong, and they can change it from one minute to the next (although that is difficult for people who are accustomed to living on mental auto-pilot).

 

[thenammagazine]

It was instinct of some kind. That's all they have. An animal's code of values is automatic. It doesn't select modes of behavior, it simply acts according to the impulses its brain sends. They can't modify it for special occasions that instinct did not prepare them for.

Humans have free will. They can choose what standards they will consider to be right or wrong, and they can change it from one minute to the next (although that is difficult for people who are accustomed to living on mental auto-pilot).

Which. Is. Just. About. Everybody.

 

[devilof76]

Yup.

 

[Maglor]

Damn this thread took off. Ummm. Ever see that nature show in which a whole pride of lions got killed except one female? Then she found a baby wildebeest and took it on as her cub? It was starving because it couldn't drink her milk. Eventually a wandering male lion murdered them both. What does that have to do with altruism? I don't know but that ____ was sad.

Not altruism. Animals aren't capable of it.

If humans are, it's one of the things that sets us apart from them.

It was instinct of some kind. That's all they have. An animal's code of values is automatic.

 

[devilof76]

Not altruism. Animals aren't capable of it.

If humans are, it's one of the things that sets us apart from them.

Right. They can't voluntarily ____ up.

 

[Maglor]

Right. They can't voluntarily ____ up.

Absolutely true.


They also can't love or create.

 

[thenammagazine]

Absolutely true.


They also can't love or create.

So even your pets have hated you.

 

[devilof76]

Love is a completely different animal when you can choose it for yourself.

Uniquely human, I would dare say.

Absolutely true.


They also can't love or create.

You said it.