We could debate each case until the cows come home.
#Dont sleep out of self hatred free#
There are times that what we call “self-sacrifice” (but that is actually not) can be a free and loving choice and there are also times that what we call “self-sacrifice” can be morally reprehensible, a disowning of one’s free will and abusive. This is part of what makes people so fascinating and inspiring. There are times when people find that the loss of their own life in the name of something they believe in would make them feel better than living out of alignment with their own values and beliefs.
He would have seen it as a risk he would have to take in accordance with the prioritization of what mattered most to him specifically. But if he was enlightened, he would not have. To use an example, other people would have seen Jesus’s death on the cross as a sacrifice. But you won’t really see it or feel it as altruism because you see the self-service in all of your actions relative to others. So, swallow the truth that there is nothing wrong with self-centered motives and that you can’t escape them even if you try and that the more enlightened you become, the more you experience that everything is you and so the more motivated you become to do things to increase the wellbeing of “others”. In a universe that is one, you could say that every act is self-centered because there is nothing that is not you. So the most enlightened being will be moved towards acts of altruism because they experience all things in the world as themselves. This does not mean that the entire universe is narcissistic. The only reason anyone does anything is because they think it will make them feel better if they do it. So basically because we believe it is wrong to be self-motivated, we can’t see or admit to the self-motivation behind our altruism. But even when we do this as a child, we are actually doing this for the sake of our own self-preservation and to get closeness and approval from them, so even that is a self-centered act of prioritization. We are rewarded for doing so and conversely punished for being selfish. We think it is possible to give up our own best interests because we are taught as children that to be good, we must give up what we want or need for what our parents and siblings want and need.
In other words, the minute you take someone or something’s best interests as a part of your own, there is no giving up of your own best interests when you act in theirs. For example, a person who takes the best interests of a cause as a part of their own best interests will act in the best interests of that cause, even putting his or her own life on the line and not see or feel that as a sacrifice because they ARE acting in their own best interests by doing so. When you do this, acting in their best interests becomes self-serving and does not feel like you are giving yourself up in any way. It is only possible to be more or less inclusive of the wellbeing of others by taking their best interests as a part of your own best interests. Therefore, there is actually no such thing as self-sacrifice. It is not actually possible to give up your own best interests. This is where we run into a problem right here. But what if self-sacrifice was in fact self-centered?Ī basic definition of self-sacrifice is the giving up of one’s own best interests for the sake of someone or something else’s.
It is considered to be the ultimate act of selfless altruism. Self-sacrifice is considered to be a human virtue. And it becomes rather ironic because we begin to engage in what would seemingly be self-less and altruistic behavior for purely self-centered reasons. From the very get go, we are trained to be good for the sake of our own survival and wellbeing. These opinions about rightness and goodness become morals and ethics, which exist as a way for people to keep social order. The only way to survive and to get one’s needs met is to do and be good according to the social group. People are programmed from a young age to see that when they do bad or are bad according to the social group, their survival and needs are threatened. Humans are a social species where survival and wellbeing depend upon cohesion with the social group.
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