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Why this feeling and what is it.We do a good thing for somebody and we feel better, is that why we do it.
Can we truly be altruistic?
You are voicing precisely what my pastor once said. When we love someone, we do good to him/her; why? Because if we don't, we feel terrible; and if we do, we feel good. Even those that seek the ultimate ego-free state, want to do so to feel good.
What do I think about this? Nobody is actually altruistic, at least when we see it under this light. Love is the core nature of humanity and love is egotistical; we do good to feel good. But I don't normally go to think to this level of detail about this. In the end there is not any true altruism. But what is closer to that ideal is doing good with love. Yet I think that that ideal of altruism is not human nature, so it would be counterproductive. My opinion.
