Reciprocal altruism

Counter-Argument: Contrary to my beliefs, some people still think that making sacrifices is totally selfless. One-way that people can think that sacrifice is selfless is by the sacrifier’s intent. If you do not hope for a return and you are truly trying to help the good of the community, and you believe this with your whole heart, then your selflessness is motivated by pure intent rather than a drive to gain status in your community. You can be a vessel of generosity and your feeling is for…

Indian education activist Sadhu Vaswani once stated, “If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.” Love and sacrifice can be seen as the most challenging traits to display, especially when showing shared humanity, or displaying kindness, sympathy and mercy towards others. In John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, he is able to demonstrate the human races’ capacity to share…

Firstly, benevolence brings danger to oneself by damaging one's health. According to Time, people who sacrifice to take care of their family members "become less healthy both emotionally and physically, since they are frequently overwhelmed with conflicting responsibilities." This shows that benevolence can actually be harmful to the one providing help if they are constantly helping others. Additionally, being excessively benevolent can cause service "to become more of a burden than a blessing"…

Altruism and hedonism are two opposite extremes of how one may react to the idea of pleasure or joy. Most of society tend to fall in the middle or grab a little from each side. Another word for altruism is self-sacrificing while hedonism is self-satisfaction. It is a definite struggle to balance the two in an everyday routine, and a lot of the time humans struggle to discover the best way to handle questionable situations. It can be relatively challenging to accommodate the happiness of everyone…

“If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it.” There are people and animals around the world that are suffering, people want to help them but that can require great amounts of money. People can help other and do great thing without spending thousands of dollars. They may not be grand things such as ending world hunger, but it could change somebody’s day and outlook on life. There have been many accounts of random acts of kindness that have turned…

The journal Psychological Science, researchers found that individuals who watch uplifting clips in movies, T.V. shows, etc. are more likely to act in a altruistic behavior soon after the clips. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus shows the whole town of Maycomb that anyone can have compassion towards one another, even those who seem undeserving. It is hard to care about matters in hand especially when other don’t support your proposition like in part one of To Kill a Mockingbird…

is to make ourselves better off.” (Landau 106) This means in order for someone to adopt this theory they must believe that even trivial events that seem very altruistic are in fact somehow spawned from an egotistical mindset. Landau explains, “…altruism—the direct desire to benefit others for their own sake without any ulterior motive—does not exist.” (Landau 91) It is important to understand that psychological egoism is…

diffraction patterns through an exploration of reciprocal space. In this experiment, both a single crystal piece of Si with a (004) reflection plane and a Si powder sample are scanned, as well as the peaks the locations of the diffraction peaks on the single crystal. The collected data is then analyzed to determine the criteria for planes to produce a spike in energy by plotting in reciprocal space. This experiment serves to illustrate the importance of reciprocal space. It also introduces the…

Professionalism is a combination of knowledge and wisdom, a virtue if you will, obtained from a variety of sources including education, socialization, and experience in the field. No matter what level of education a person has achieved, or the amount of experience gained, openness, transparency, and continually striving to improve are characteristics necessary for achieving superior results. Something rather profound happened over the past week or so and the following discussion post will…

filial piety is 4.63 (SD=.57) which shows that Chinese adolescents posses high filial piety attitude. Specially, mean score of reciprocal filial piety is 5.48 (SD=.57), while mean score of authoritarian filial piety is 3.77 (SD=.86). This result indicates that Chinese adolescents hold high level of both reciprocal and authoritarian filial piety; however, the attitude of reciprocal filial piety is higher than that of authoritarian filial piety. Furthermore, mean score of prosocial behavior is…