Recipients of Altruism Likely to Pass It On

[Tara]

Recipients of Altruism Likely to Pass It On

Researchers want people to make 'what goes around comes around' a positive thing.
By Heather J. Smith

Any thoughts?

[littlepea]

i just try to be nice to everyone all the time (most enemies included), always say please and thank you and hold the door for people and let people juke in front of me in traffic jams etc.

sometimes i forget, though, if i'm in a rush and accidently do something to p-ss someone off and don't realise it, and don't apologize, and then i feel guilty, but if a stranger's good to me i'm more likely to be extremly grateful than to feel guilty about not getting a chance to help them back (which is something that study mentions).

i dunno where that feeling of guilt would come from, really. maybe i'm too naive for the real world

[Tara]

Or perhaps you just have a good heart. You're not cold if that's the case.

[littlepea]

maybe ...

you know how some people get violent when they get drunk? well i've never ever gotten violent when i've been drinking. sure, i've done stupid stuff and ended up hurting myself in the process of attempting some superhuman feat of acrobatics (or tripping over my own shoe laces more likely) but i've never felt the desire to start fighting with someone or start giving someone abuse like some people do when they drink.

maybe that's cos i'm a good person, or maybe it's because i don't have many unresolved issues which i can only express in this way, or maybe it's because whenever i get that drunk i usually throw up.

or maybe it's in my blood - you know how there are different clans in scotland depending on what family you belong to? maybe you don't, but that's basically what it is - each clan has a different tartan design that you can still get these days to make kilts out of. anyway my clan was based on the borders between scotland and england and historically used to keep the peace in local conflicts between the two nations ... so maybe the reason i never feel the urge to get violent is because my genes are telling me that all i really want is peace

[Tara]

lol maybe.

[littlepea]