If you follow the thesis “the way to be happy is to sacrifice your happiness for the happiness of other people” to its logical conclusion for everyone—nobody in the world is ever going to be happy. Imagine happiness as a small box. Since I want to be a “good person”, and “good people are unselfish”, I will pass the box to my neighbor.
#90 – The unselfishness trap
#90 – The unselfishness trap
#90 – The unselfishness trap
If you follow the thesis “the way to be happy is to sacrifice your happiness for the happiness of other people” to its logical conclusion for everyone—nobody in the world is ever going to be happy. Imagine happiness as a small box. Since I want to be a “good person”, and “good people are unselfish”, I will pass the box to my neighbor.