[JasonTakeshi]

Originally Posted by iPhantom

I've donated or gave money without feeling anything. Many friends I know have done the same way. I've also refused, but I still feel the same. I believe you're pulling some crap here now. Did you really donate to fell happier? I, myself, donate to help other people, regardless of my feelings. I don't know how you can interpret this situation as selfish but you seem to be the only one able to do so.

Anyway, that unconscious benefit you're talking about is not as significant as your main action. You're not selfish here.

EDIT: Like I said before, you're asking for pure altruism. Go research on that, it doesn't exist. But altruism does. Donating is altruism.

That was a crap argument and a contradiction.

"I've donated or gave money without feeling anything ... I, myself, donate to help other people..."

You're helping others for no reason? No. You're donating to help them.

1 - Reason: Helping others.
2 - Helping others: Compassion.
3 - Compassion: Emotion prompted by the pain of others.

And the next one goes back to the example i gave previously about donating:

4 - "Regardless if its Altruism or not, you gave that money because you wanted to feel happy. Because it fulfills you to think that your doing something good, when your just trying to calm your inner feelings from what you are exposed to around the world (or Media). Such as hunger, illness, etc. It makes you unhappy, so you donate. It makes you less unhappy."


Boy, you are so lost.