Arguments Against Altruism
Hon Q Du
PSYC 1101-102
Response paper #3
Defense mechanism is an interesting strategy which we use to deal with unpleased issues or harms. We may not aware the way we are using this mechanism sometimes, and it has become unconscious action in our daily activities. An example of the defense mechanism is when someone mentions about our embarrassing moments in the past which we tried to keep those as a secret, and we would refuse or blame others for that. The purpose of this defense mechanism is to reduce the effect of the unpleased things to us. However, using this method for a long time also has its own side effect is preventing us to encounter the practical issues or the truth because it has established this behavior as a response to any unexpected issues. Therefore, I suppose defense mechanism is a perfect method to protect …show more content…
Altruism could be explained as a kindness, or a willing to treat others under any circumstances. Taking care homeless people or donating money to in the efforts to help recover after disasters is an example that people can do to help each other. I also believe that altruism could be expressed as an intrinsic trait or human nature because we do not acquire through educating. It is obviously in children who have not gotten the practical experience than the adults tend to help if someone needs them even a stranger. Affecting by many social factors, adults may think carefully about the decisions whether to help others in many situations because their kindnesses may cause more troubles as the result in return, such as the possible to be in the dangerous situations like we can see on the articles of the newspaper and news. These social factors influence the kindness or the willing of individual to help other are gender, the presence of other people, the timing, or the culture, etc. Therefore, altruism is a flexible behavior that may change the way we help depending on the
PSYC 1101-102
Response paper #3
Defense mechanism is an interesting strategy which we use to deal with unpleased issues or harms. We may not aware the way we are using this mechanism sometimes, and it has become unconscious action in our daily activities. An example of the defense mechanism is when someone mentions about our embarrassing moments in the past which we tried to keep those as a secret, and we would refuse or blame others for that. The purpose of this defense mechanism is to reduce the effect of the unpleased things to us. However, using this method for a long time also has its own side effect is preventing us to encounter the practical issues or the truth because it has established this behavior as a response to any unexpected issues. Therefore, I suppose defense mechanism is a perfect method to protect …show more content…
Altruism could be explained as a kindness, or a willing to treat others under any circumstances. Taking care homeless people or donating money to in the efforts to help recover after disasters is an example that people can do to help each other. I also believe that altruism could be expressed as an intrinsic trait or human nature because we do not acquire through educating. It is obviously in children who have not gotten the practical experience than the adults tend to help if someone needs them even a stranger. Affecting by many social factors, adults may think carefully about the decisions whether to help others in many situations because their kindnesses may cause more troubles as the result in return, such as the possible to be in the dangerous situations like we can see on the articles of the newspaper and news. These social factors influence the kindness or the willing of individual to help other are gender, the presence of other people, the timing, or the culture, etc. Therefore, altruism is a flexible behavior that may change the way we help depending on the