IN> Re: Selflessness Paradox

[Daniel Childers]

>From: dande002 at fish.co.uk
>Otherwise, all it is saying is that you should do whatever you were going 
>to do
>anyway, which is meaningless.
>

I am reminded of the joke about some of the Sabbat codes of ethics
in Vampires: The Masquerade, which rewarded munchkinly behavior
with yet more in-game rewards. IE, "The Path of What I Wanted To
Do Anyway". (We're talking rationalizing your whims, not some Tao
ideal of attuning your desires to what is proper).

But what has come up here is more of a claim that selflessness does
not exist--that if you want to do something, then you are being
selfish in doing it, even if an outside observor would think it
altruistic.

A Habbalite rationale: following this, the only way for someone
to act selflessly is if they *don't* want to do it. The only way
for someone to get into Heaven is if they are *forced* to do
the right thing; if they *want* to do the right thing, they
deserve to go to Hell for doing it! Gear up the emotion control
Resonance, this Habby is going to be using it a lot.