RSSKarmawish: A Social Networking Site for Doing Good Deeds
By John Farrier in Blogs & Internet on Jul 9, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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John
Rarely is altruism truly altruistic. At minimum, the giver feels good about him/herself for having done a good thing.
Johnny Cat
Isn’t this simply assurance that a good deed will be its own reward?
Timm
A lot of overthinking going on here. Just sign in and reap the benifits of being a good soul…
Reechard
Cool! Reminds me of couchsurfing.com. This will be really great once it has enough members.
Him
This reminds me of “Pay it Forward”, I just wish it had the same message.
Video Game Dork
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.
dutchboy
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.
Video Game Dork
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).
Guillaume Besson
They have released a new version recently!
4 languages and it’s much more intuitive.
Worth a visit!
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