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I provided pocket food and supported his charitable works because I believed in this priest.
These are powerful reasons. The emotional feeling for some people is pleasant. Also if you help people, they feel comfortable with you and help you. If you really break it down, maybe at the core the goal is to get more business. I'm not sure. But if people like to do it, they should.
I also think about helping people we know through UU "church". If you help a stranger who's struggling, maybe he'll learn more about humanism, critical thinking, and the stories that inform our culture. Maybe he'll be more stable and productive, which helps everyone. This is so powerful that I believe in getting the gov't involved in this in a small way, something I know most objectivists reject.
There's also an attitude change inside myself if I'm helping other people, not always for immediate payment, that somehow leads to more paying clients.
This is completely different in my mind from saying "I'm forgoing for other. So should you. You should not have cool electronic toys while others suffer?" That is a corrosive attitude that leads to no new toys, services, products, etc for everyone.
1 disposition to do good
a : an act of kindness
b : a generous gift
None of these definitions necessarily contradicts selfishness. However, if you read further, you will see examples that tend toward altruism in effect. Whenever one "gives" not in their rational self interest, that is altruism. Lacking in ego, gift by emotions only and no recognition of self's needs. It is pretty clear-cut.
“having or showing a concern for the welfare of others”
http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus...
benevolent:
#2 “having or showing a concern for the welfare of others ”
http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus...
When looking up the words this way, it appears A is B