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user-inactivated  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How selfish is too selfish?

Interesting. I don't follow this, though:

    and you cause disproportionate work for someone else's needs and wants, that is "too selfish"

Disproportionate in relation to what? To what other people put into another person's needs and wants? What if they help to push you to help them? I suppose the last point takes priority over disproportionality if the conditions are met.

    If not all of your comforts are being met, you have choice on whether to choose your own direct comfort or to help someone else (humans, being social creatures, do gain a form of happiness from pleasing someone else)

What do you see the act of helping others as? Is it reasonably selfish? Unreasonably selfish? Altruistic?