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I'd like to be able to agree, but my first impulse is usually to help myself. This may, and often does, have the effect of helping someone else.
I don't believe that selfishness and altruism are mutually exclusive.
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Selfishness and altruism are mutually exclusive.+1 ralph
Wish I could agree, but it's usually human nature to think of yourself first...
Like reading the description of this claim after voting (it wasn't displayed on the page I voted from), sometimes it takes me a tad too long to reconsider and I've already committed.
Unless my fool-proof method of insuring that they will never commit the indecency that brought them to my attention in the first place can be considered "helping" them.
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More often than not, my first impulse upon being made aware of my fellow man is to remove them with extreme prejudice.It's my first impulse. My second impulse is to evaluate whether it would be wise to do so.
I'm constantly amazed by my own ability and that of others to completely ignore the plight of our fellow man. My day isn't even slightly spoiled by walking past a hungry homeless person, the change jingling in my pocket. And the vast majority of people I have observed act the same way, whatever they might like to think.
I am amazed by my own behavior in a similar circumstance as well… however this claim is not addressing behavior but cognition.