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What is the point of doing good things without getting any recognition?

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Otis Campbell Profile
Otis Campbell answered

I know i did something right i dont want recognition

Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

It's called "integrity".

"If people are only good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."    -Albert Einstein

Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered

No recognition necessary.

Darik Majoren Profile
Darik Majoren answered

I heard on the radio (NPR) that a view behavioral scientists did some research on this very thing. The test subjects were given a certain amount of money, and told to spend it on themselves. They did so, and then answered some questions as well as had some tests run.

The same sample of people were then given money and told they had to spend it another person, and without the other person knowing. They did so, and then answered some questions as well as had some tests run.

For the majority of people, they received more pleasure in spending the money on other people then themselves. Scientist theorized that there was more good chemicals released (like serotonin) in the act of giving then there was in doing something selfish.

So, if it makes you feel better doing good . . . Why wouldn't you do it?

Janis Haskell Profile
Janis Haskell answered

Doing good deeds anonymously is even more rewarding to me than the more obvious acts of kindness.  (Nobody feels embarrassed or obliged in any way.)

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

God would be the person to ask about this since He must have the record for doing the most good for mankind without getting the appropriate recognition.

And if the second "great" commandment is love your neighbor as yourself  (Mark 12:31), it makes all kinds of sense that it would feel good to do so.

(Now Sigmund Freud, to the end of his life, he maintained his stance as an uncompromising atheist, the stance he is best known for down to the present. In “The Future of an Illusion,” he described belief in God as a collective neurosis.  So if you are an atheist like your avatar, this answer might not mean much to you.)

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Call me Z
Call me Z commented
Bravo. Freud was every bit of what you say, truly a hero of mine.

I would offer that based on some reflection of the Biblical God's behavior, his reply might include some form of "or else". ;-)

There was that whole drowning thing....
Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
Hey...they should have learned to swim---lol
KB Baldwin Profile
KB Baldwin answered

Like a counterfeit Charlie Brown said:  Doing good around here is like wetting yourself in a dark suit.  You get a warm feeling but no one noticers.

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