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BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Metacognitive Ordeal

    Or is the argument more like whenever you do something you are always doing it for at least a couple reasons, only one of which will be simply to do it?
This is where the debate lies. Many people say you can't do something for the sole reason of doing it, that there are always unintentional byproducts. Because these byproducts exist, the output is more than the input as opposed to input = output (volunteering = volunteering as opposed to volunteering = volunteering + happiness).