You Don't Need a Reason to Help People
That quote in the title is from an old computer game, but I couldn't help but think of it today. I normally enjoy psychology and exploring the mind, etc. but today we were looking into WHY people help others, and it was quite a depressing view on things. Basically, the outlook was you NEVER help others unless you get some reward, even if its just self satisifaction, which I found quite depressing. Helping others is just part of our culture, and I'd prefer to leave it unexplained than go into detail. I don't believe you need a reason, as the quote says. First time I've actually felt in psychology I really didn't want something explained, it seems to take away from the overall feeling that there are good human beings as well as self centered ones. Luckily, I can ignore what some experimenter thought 20 years ago.
In other news; Baird's started a blog, and in the great tradition of blogs internet wide, has been moaning in the last one. Since I believe Baird is reading this, I might as well say what I was thinking. He seems to take to heart alot of our jokes (for example, in psychology today we made many jokes on his behalf). Of course, these are just jokes and mean no malice, as well as many other things we said. Quite hilariously, in the common room whenever he walked over he'd be in our conversation, but it wasn't actually anything bad (My belief he should be the guy's band's lead singer!) Yet, maybe he feels we're against him. To me, Baird's just another guy in our group, admitingly he can be annoying, but I'm worse than him. So in conclusion, he really shouldn't feel so bad about himself.
Ahem. Anyway. I still haven't suceeded in signing up to give blood. Somebody make me. There were no leaflets or anything in school meaning I'll have to phone or something, which is slightly less easy to do. I also have failed in one of my aims, I thought if I give blood without making a big thing of it, I could disprove the psychologcal "there is no selfless act" theory. But since then I'd be doing it to disprove the theory, the theory would still stand. Fuck.
In other news; Baird's started a blog, and in the great tradition of blogs internet wide, has been moaning in the last one. Since I believe Baird is reading this, I might as well say what I was thinking. He seems to take to heart alot of our jokes (for example, in psychology today we made many jokes on his behalf). Of course, these are just jokes and mean no malice, as well as many other things we said. Quite hilariously, in the common room whenever he walked over he'd be in our conversation, but it wasn't actually anything bad (My belief he should be the guy's band's lead singer!) Yet, maybe he feels we're against him. To me, Baird's just another guy in our group, admitingly he can be annoying, but I'm worse than him. So in conclusion, he really shouldn't feel so bad about himself.
Ahem. Anyway. I still haven't suceeded in signing up to give blood. Somebody make me. There were no leaflets or anything in school meaning I'll have to phone or something, which is slightly less easy to do. I also have failed in one of my aims, I thought if I give blood without making a big thing of it, I could disprove the psychologcal "there is no selfless act" theory. But since then I'd be doing it to disprove the theory, the theory would still stand. Fuck.
posted by Li at 7:16 PM
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