On an individual level, compassion and altruism lead to inner peace, the most fulfilling of personal achievements
A mistake of the individualist mindset is to believe compassion means foregoing one's self-interest. A compassionate society benefits us all
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Do you want to work on empirically validating this? https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53ca9138e4b09ce5b336e6a8/t/575f2c7e9f7266ebae8ec1a6/1465855103258/RutledgedeBerkerDolanNC16.pdf … The social contingency of momentary subjective well-being
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In many cases -- also apparently for you -- it does, but depends on the individual in general.
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Many times it boils down to the idea of scarcity (which is artificial for many resources today) which says the more for me the less for you.
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Alexis de Tocqueville called this ‘self-interest properly understood’ (intérêt bien entendu)
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