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Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:38 AM
Because you want other people to feel good or because it makes you feel good?
Er, helping people is kinda exerting some control over their condition. I suppose you're always going to be affecting other people's situation in some way but one doesn't have to do it with the intent of controlling them.
Like, helping people for the sake of helping them vs. helping them as a side effect of whatever your goal is.
edited 10th Apr '11 10:44:18 PM by melloncollie
I always feel weird when I edit Wikipedia. It's like, I have nothing to contribute except fixing formatting or cleaning up something someone else fucked up.
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Gah what am I saying. I'm mixed up.
I don't feel that helping people is inherently totalitarian or whatever, I just said so that it's entirely possible for self-centered people to help others.
edited 10th Apr '11 11:03:26 PM by melloncollie
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I'm sure plenty of people can do "focus on others" in a way that doesn't bug me, I just associate the more extreme end of it with moral authoritarianism. Self-centeredness, the way I'm thinking of it, kinda implies moral anarchy.
Er, I suppose I should clarify. By "self-centeredness" I mean "I act this way because it feels good to me/I know it is right for me/it's my fate"; "focus on others" is more like "I act this way because I control the condition/fate of others (for their own good)".
Blergh, still not quite what I wanted to say.
edited 10th Apr '11 10:39:15 PM by melloncollie