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Originally Posted by boomboy92  I don't know if I actually believe this, but this could be considered a philosophy:
The reason why anyone does anything is for personal happiness or to stay away from personal unhappiness.
Share your thoughts. Can anyone give me a counter example. Don't say religion because people join religion for a relationship with God and therefore happiness. And don't say helping others, because people help others because it makes them feel better. Also don't say self-mutilation or anything else that should cause pain or unhappiness to a person because they do that because they feel it is better than an alternative, and therefore they are doing it for less unhappiness than the alternative. |
Maybe it's because I am English, but I can't actually fathom out what you are attempting to ask here.
Do you mean that you believe that people only ever do things for their own selfish reasons? I would call that cynical rather than philosophical tbh. They who walk in silence hang the innocent and set the guilty free. |