Karmawish: A Social Networking Site for Doing Good Deeds

1. Alex
   July 9th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

   Whatever happens to "a good deed is its own reward"?

2. John
   July 9th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

   Rarely is altruism truly altruistic. At minimum, the giver feels good about him/herself for having done a good thing.

3. eni
   July 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

   @John: So?

4. Johnny Cat
   July 9th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

   Isn't this simply assurance that a good deed will be its own reward?

5. Timm
   July 9th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

   A lot of overthinking going on here. Just sign in and reap the benifits of being a good soul...

6. Reechard
   July 9th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

   Cool! Reminds me of couchsurfing.com. This will be really great once it has enough members.

7. Him
   July 10th, 2009 at 12:23 am

   This reminds me of "Pay it Forward", I just wish it had the same message.

8. Video Game Dork
   July 10th, 2009 at 5:25 am

   Pay it Porward was exponential (you do three good deeds when you receive one), and this seems linear (one for one, based on the 'value' of the good dead).

   As for 'making sure that a good deed IS it's own reward', no this isn't that. The point of that axiom is that doing the good deed is itself a reward to the do, not that they will be 'rewarded' in some way in the future. For this site, you'd have to modify the sayign to say something like "A good deed deserves another." or somthing like that.

9. birdie1
   July 10th, 2009 at 8:33 am

   reminds me of yahoo answers

10. dutchboy
    July 10th, 2009 at 10:12 am

    John

    Rarely is altruism truly altruistic. At minimum, the giver feels good about him/herself for having done a good thing.

    You think to much dude.

11. Video Game Dork
    July 10th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    I don't think he thinks to much. I just think he stated something obvious, but inserted an unneeded cynicsm.. Doing a good deed does make someone feel good. But we still call that altruism (even though we get the 'benefit' of feeling good). Its no less altruist if your only 'reward' is being happy that you did a good deed (thus going back to the 'a good deed is its own reward' thing).

12. ted
    July 11th, 2009 at 5:58 am

    Is there a place called Deathwish?

13. Guillaume Besson
    October 13th, 2009 at 9:05 am

    They have released a new version recently!
    4 languages and it's much more intuitive.
    Worth a visit!

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