Delta-cod
Smash Hero
Your editing has bested me. You win this round.
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The Selfishness of Humanity (a thread to stop a hijack)
- Thread starter SuSa
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finalark
SNORLAX
[QUOTE="Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw]People are ****. Whenever I'm in a crowd, I think "who left this **** allover the place? I'm ****, you're ****, the world is **** and if you're sitting there thinking "Yes, it's true. Everyone is **** except me" then you're a double bacon **** with large fries Mr. ****face. Sorry this reflects badly on me, doesn't? I should have said Mr. or Mrs. ****face.[/QUOTE]
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Pretty much the entire opening, summed up in one quote.
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Pretty much the entire opening, summed up in one quote.
Delta-cod
Smash Hero
Another Zero Punctuation watcher?
The only thing that could make you better were if you had ****. And you were on fire.
The only thing that could make you better were if you had ****. And you were on fire.
Insetick
Smash Apprentice
I hope you'll read my earlier post on page 2. Socratic philosophy states that we do everything based on two factors:
1. Our desire for happiness, which is common to everyone and unchanging.
2. Our beliefs about how to get happiness (which can be wrong)
I still don't understand your perception of reality. I've heard this type of idea before, and I'd like to hear it in-depth. Can you please respond in detail here or by PM?
The Sauce Boss
Smash Ace
1. I read it and I agree with it for the most part. I still personally believe it's quite possible to achieve happiness without being selfish. I think the problem is that we are defining selfishness as wanting to be happy, which isn't what I see selfishness as I guess.
2. Maybe tomorrow if I remember. I would be interested in your definition as well.
§witch
Smash Lord
What about Karl- Mother ****ing- Marx?
¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯
Smash Legend
SuSa
Banned via Administration
Nobody cares for him. Duh?
Timbers
check me out
selfish=/=caring only out one's self.
You can care about others and still hold yourself above them.
SuSa
Banned via Administration
Signature is "clever girl" but your thing is "thinks he can dance"?
Also what you said. <_< You can be selfish but still not completely self-centered..
Timbers
check me out
watch jurassic park C:
SuSa
Banned via Administration
But I dislike TV and movies.
EDIT:
Le Gasp? Your signature showed up when mine didn't? D= WWWHHHYYYYYY
Zero Beat
Cognitive Scientist
Selfishness to me is very circumstantial:
If I don't like you(because you're annoying/inconsiderate, ect) I'd love to be a selfish ****. But If I like you or love you, I'd do my best to be as selfless as possible, all the time.
If I don't like you(because you're annoying/inconsiderate, ect) I'd love to be a selfish ****. But If I like you or love you, I'd do my best to be as selfless as possible, all the time.
demonictoonlink
Smash Master
Being truly selfless= stupid and impossible
You can be a great caring, helpful person and still keep a lot of your own best interests in mind. Their is no reason to deprave yourself of your own attention; People should just never purposely harm others in attempts to better themselves.
Who cares if someone thinks of themselves? As long as they still think of others, there is no problem.
You can be a great caring, helpful person and still keep a lot of your own best interests in mind. Their is no reason to deprave yourself of your own attention; People should just never purposely harm others in attempts to better themselves.
Who cares if someone thinks of themselves? As long as they still think of others, there is no problem.
Beren Zaiga
Smash Ace
Osamu Tezuka didn't father Manga as a kid due to competition (and I mean before he started selling them), We didn't create The Bomb due to competition (War does not = competition in this case you twits, nobody was COMPETING with US to CREATE the bomb BEFORE Russia knew about it) The first video game wasn't made due to competition, it was made by accident.
Doesn't completely defeat your argument, but those points do stand. dissect all you wish, at the base, they hold up.
Side Note: Moral sense on the net is worse than IRL....there is none. Never has been. This saddens me in the intellectual mindset. =__=
SuSa
Banned via Administration
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp ?
Also there is a nice story about Dr. Seuss. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butter_Battle_Book
Arms Race is the key word.
Beren Zaiga
Smash Ace
...Do you really think I am so unintelligent that I require an allusion in book form by Dr.Seuss to understand anything?
The key point is there can only be an Arms Race if two or more nations are COMPETING to make a better version of THE SAME TYPE OF WEAPON, OR A SIMILAR ONE. Nobody except Russia knew about The Bomb due to spying on us, and they didn't start making theirs until after the fighting in Europe ended, and finished theirs not long after WWII. That was when the arms race for a more powerful Atomic Weapon of Mass Destruction began. The Nuclear Arms Race is over now, and has been since before the 70s and the end of the Cold War.
Therefore, we did not make the bomb due to competition. We made The Bomb due to a perceived necessity to end the war with Japan quickly, which we then threatened them with, and used on them twice before they gave up.
If you knew the chronological path that history took, you would know this.
I'm not selfish, it's just that only my interests are really important.
That's not selfish, it's self preservation.
That's not selfish, it's self preservation.
You're not selfish at all. You're just exceedingly self-important. Oh wait.
Insetick
Smash Apprentice
By nature, though, we are not totally selfish. As I said in Fatmanonice's blog on compassion, kinship causes us to care for others.
Biologically, I doubt any of you are completely selfish.
Biologically, I doubt any of you are completely selfish.
highfive
Smash Lord
People are totally selfish. Your best friend is laying in a hospital bed. And you want him to live. People would say that's unselfish but in reality it is. You don't really want the human to live, you want your friend to live so he/she doesn't leave you alone. People are selfish. It's all about B****es and money.
Falconv1.0
Smash Master
Things are created by necessity, we improve on those from competition.
Duh.
Duh.
SuSa
Banned via Administration
Depends on the action.
You could be selfish trying to keep the person to yourself.
Even if current morals would show this as not being selfish par se.
Zero Beat
Cognitive Scientist
Don't you date people and love them because they somehow enhance YOUR life? Behind virtually every decision that may seem nice, there's self interest. The problem is that 'self-interest' sounds so negative, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The Dinkoman
Smash Lord
I don't know about you, but I do not sell fish.
Falconv1.0
Smash Master
^This. Hell even when I 'fell in love' I went into the relationship with my wants and needs first.
Not that she needs to know that thooooooouuuuugh.
RyuReiatsu
Smash Journeyman
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Jim Morrison
Smash Authority
I'm not sure, Ryu, it made me LOL for quite a while. I haven't had UB make me LOL for a while.
Yes people are selfish, but if you are not, you will not survive. Everything you do is eventually for personal gain. If you do something good for someone, you wish for them to like you. If they hate you, you want them to stop hating you, thus profiting you. You have to find a bala
Yes people are selfish, but if you are not, you will not survive. Everything you do is eventually for personal gain. If you do something good for someone, you wish for them to like you. If they hate you, you want them to stop hating you, thus profiting you. You have to find a bala