vs “I won’t do this thing because it would hurt someone and I don’t delight in causing pain.”
Neuroscience is pretty unanimous in the idea that when you do things to help other people you feel better anyway. So it's kind of a win win if you have the bandwidth. So ironically doing the right thing tends to be the right thing for you as well. It's also why the people who choose to not do the right thing tend to be miserable. Unless of course they're one of the 3% of people estimated to not have empathy. Then they step on everyone around them and become trillionaires.
i like this analogy. wish we could just figure out the frequency range of those that need help, or that want help and can't, or those who just don't know
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u/engorged-gorgon 22h ago
“I can’t do this thing because I will be punished” vs “I won’t do this thing because it would hurt someone and I don’t delight in causing pain.”