Mark Earnest <mark45@NOSPAMairmail.net> wrote in message
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"ta" <padlrnc@nc.rr.com> wrote in message
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Mark Earnest wrote:
"ta" wrote> The volunteer who spends alot of time helping people is
not
altruistic -
he's acting out of self-interest (helping people makes him feel
good).
Actually, volunteer work makes one feel bad. One has to go through
drudgery
for no pay, and that hurts.
I don't think that's true - people wouldn't volunteer if it made them
feel bad. They volunteer in capacities that enable them to feel good -
that's why they'll do it without pay. "Feeling good" = pay.
Maybe the volunteer has mixed feelings. He feels pained from drudgery
with
no pay, but he feels holy all the same.
Then it is an act of self-interest.
Maybe the way you are saying it, the feeling of being holy from the
volunteer work diminishes the bad feeling to nothingness, by comparison.
I don't know about all of this "holy" stuff; Im just talking about plain old
feeling good. :-)
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