trashleg said:
Johann said:
trashleg said:
Johann said:
trashleg said:
Johann said:
trashleg said:
Johann said:
Everyone wants to be the hero... this is so fucking typical. I hate humanity.
Surely you wouldn't send somebody to their death, cuz that wouldn't look cool, but you're fully prepared to give up your life, right? Selfish hypocrites... |
but someone who would send another to his death, while he himself avoids the situation, is a coward. fair enough if he says "i wouldnt go in there, so i wouldnt expect anyone else to go in either", but if he's protecting himself whilst sending in others, thats just selfish.
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And wanting to die a hero isn't?
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its not heroics, its called valuing human life.
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If it was just about valuing life, it wouldn't matter if it were you or somebody else.
Have you ever heard of ethical egoism?
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but to make such a decision over that person's life, to assume that such a decision is your own to make, also seems a bit off to me.
no i haven't, can you explain it to me? 
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I thought this was all assuming that the person would know that their giving up their life.
Anyway, for the egoism thing, it's related to the notion that there are no (completely) selfless good deeds. You wouldn't do something nice for someone else for absolutely no reward, even if the reward is feeling good about yourself.
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without bigging myself up here, i have a story for you.. i gave up my chance to go to university so that i could lend my mum £700 a few months ago so she could pay the rent.. because she kept dipping into the rent money to buy herself cigarettes and clothes. then i decided to work really hard so i COULD go to uni, i had to get a summer job and i had to go extend my overdraft and take out a credit card to ensure that i was able to go, and now im in shitloads of debt and i don't feel good about myself, because i worry about my financial situation and my mum still smokes and hasn't paid back anything yet and still spends money like its free. so there have been absolutely no rewards for me out of this whole thing.
so believe it or not, there ARE people out there who do selfless acts.
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Are you sure thats not just be cause you felt obliged to do that because it was your mother?
