My morals

[Vylinius]

Now you've convinced me......I might move to Denmark instead of Germany...one problem is no danish language courses where I live so darn.
On Topic: Your a great person. Yeah that's all I got for on topic

 

[Angst]

Many sweet posts, thank you people.

Thanks Yoda Power, I'm not good with a lot of English terms.

What in what you describe seems to you to be immoral? I mean I see nothing even vaguely immoral in what you wrote, it's all good. I don't really understand your question

The problem to me was that perhaps my motive for doing this might not actually be what I do for the children; I am very motivated by the fact that I do good myself. I feel like I shine in my own light; I'm perhaps not doing good for the sake of doing good; perhaps I'm doing good for the sake of myself looking good to myself.

 

[Oruc]

It depends on what you're teaching these kids

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I'm doing good for the sake of myself looking good to myself.

Mother Theresa was in the end human too, not an angel. And that means she will have had her own ultimately selfish reasons, too. That's just being human.
True pure altruism doesn't exist. It is incompatible with our minds. So don't give yourself a hard time for doing good for selfish reasons. That's the best you can do.

 

[JonBonham]

The problem to me was that perhaps my motive for doing this might not actually be what I do for the children; I am very motivated by the fact that I do good myself. I feel like I shine in my own light; I'm perhaps not doing good for the sake of doing good; perhaps I'm doing good for the sake of myself looking good to myself.

But you know what your true motives are. You do it because you like doing it. What is it you like doing? Helping kids. They benefit, you benefit, it's not selfish. It's selfish if only you benefit, or if you benefit and someone else loses out. That's selfish, otherwise you might as well call everything selfish. Everything yes we do because we want to because in some way everything we do benefits ourselves, but the meaning of the word selfish is if you only care to benefit yourself when you obviously care about helping out those kids, regardless that helping those kids gives you personal feelings of happiness. By caring or helping someone else, your actions are what matters and these are not selfish actions.

 

[Angst]

I get it. Thanks to SiLL and JonBonham; I won't quote you, because, well, I don't have any counterarguments.

 

[HannibalBarka]

Many sweet posts, thank you people.

Thanks Yoda Power, I'm not good with a lot of English terms.



The problem to me was that perhaps my motive for doing this might not actually be what I do for the children; I am very motivated by the fact that I do good myself. I feel like I shine in my own light; I'm perhaps not doing good for the sake of doing good; perhaps I'm doing good for the sake of myself looking good to myself.

I actually think people who do good because they like do it more interesting and definetly more lasting. If you help people and you really hate doing it, than there is a big risk you'll stop helping people. If however you help people and you love do it it and take pleasure doing it than that is a more balanced and lasting option. Now taking pleasure doing thing is not necessarily a matter of making money, it may be because it makes you feel good helping kids (the teacher/transmitter pleasure that makes us contribute freely to wiki for example), it may be because of a religious motive or a humanist one: it does not matter, all that matters is that you enjoy doing it and therefore you would be likely to keep doing it.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

You were doing fine morally until you decided to brag about on this forum.