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nowaypablo  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who are you, Hubski?

I dont see anything wrong with it. Everybody loves talking about themselves ;)





user-inactivated  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Narcissism is at the core of each person's actions.

nowaypablo  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's always someone who tries to insist that selflessness is just natural for some people. bullshit. It might not be for profit or attention, but nobody sacrifices if they don't gain, even if its just pleasure. Gandhi loved his job.

user-inactivated  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I challenge anyone reading this to come up with a real life instance of a person acting out of selflessness. I would like to discuss.

nowaypablo  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We could move this to its own post, but what about giving your life? Does that benefit you?

user-inactivated  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It ultimately is something that you decide for yourself. If you die after deciding to give your life, you are fulfilling your own wishes and motivations because you have decided that it's the right thing that reflects your morals. Fulfilling your own wishes is a form of narcissism.

See primary narcissism.

elizabeth  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What if you acting on impulse, without "thinking" or "deciding"? But whether that's even possible is a whole other debate.

user-inactivated  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I stand by the view that nothing is truly random. Even computers have algorithms for being "random," and it still isn't truly random.

elizabeth  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It may be not random, but not random does not mean "thought out" or "pre-meditated". If you act by reflex or impulse, of course there are factors that influenced your reaction, but that does not mean you even agree with your reaction. If we take the fight or flight response for example, I might think I would rather fight and if given the time to decide, that's what I would do. But on impulse, I run away even if I didn't really want to do it. But well that's all speculation, I don't know much about philosophy/ psychology.

rezzeJ  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't mean to imply there was anything wrong with it, I didn't mean to imply anything at all. It was simply an observation.