sapphi_snake said:
Are you religious Khasz? You use the word "sin" way too much. I'm all for helping others. It's necessary for all people to have a certain standard of living, so that society is stable. However I don't think that people should live to help others. People need a little "selfish" indulgence (like reading a good book, playing a video game, or commenting on forums), in order to be happy. These things shouldn't make you feel guilty. It's the desire to be able to do these things is what drives us forward. Even when helpign others, we do it so that they too can enjoy thse things. If we didn't such "selfish" things, we'd all be miserable. Ascentism is one of the worst vices. |
I'm using the word sin because it's a religious conversation. Aside from which, what would be wrong if people lived to help others? If that's what people lived to do, the world would be a much better place.
Of course, because people are selfish, it's not possible to live like that, hence why things like communism in general are bound to fail, but to suggest that it would be wrong to live that way... I can't see how. (Well actually, that's the problem with communism, in the cases in which it would succeed, the predisposition of the people would make communism uneeded.)
To live completly for others is what i'd consider a perfect existensce... I can't see how it would be argued otherwise, if what we all wanted to do most was help each other, life would be much better.
Ironically you seem to be argueing for "enlightened selfishness."
