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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (72420)	8/12/2003 6:30:31 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

people do things because they view it as being the right thing to do even when the personal benefit of not doing the right thing would be greater then the benefit of not doing the right thing. But first, they have to have defined the act as a right thing, not a wrong thing. So they have formed a moral universe in which some things are the right things for them to do. And they consider the benefit to them of knowing they're doing the right thing, even when it doesn't otherwise benefit them, as being better for them than not doing it. This, for example, is at least part of what motivates suicide bombers. It is, also in part, what motivates those people who flagellate themselves, those who walk barefoot up a path of thorns, those who donate a kidney, and on and on.