Well even Abraham Lincoln said it was impossible, I want to agree with him, so does our current culture differ at all. But what do you mean small amounts? Individual acts or lifestyles? Do you think anyone could do the lifestyle?
See, I am tempted to state, that in the end what it really comes down to, is your own ability to remember things from the past. For a good majority of the people in the world, they have a hard time remembering what happened two days ago, let alone some event that happened years ago.
Unless this event is something that is talked about so many times that it just become so embedded into our memory. Then, and only then do majority remember it.
I do not think that Theresa and Jesus could have been the only two people to had transpired to it, plus if Jesus is part of the Trinity, then how can we even compare human actions to him? That would be like saying that any human is suppose to attain to the abilities of a God. In which case, many would say that this person is power hungry like no other and often have mental issues that they would even think it could be possible.
But what if in the end, what you had was more of a want that no matter what you did in this world, no matter how you accomplish it, that you always try and do the right thing, be it good for yourself or not? Is that not a way to change the world? The two people you choose, are some of histories greatest people stories that we know about. But what about the stories that we don't remember, that we don't think about all the time. It seems like those just become forgot souls, lost forever in the shadow of a more popular person.
Maybe I am wrong, it seems to me that if you really wanted it, then you could act this way. Even with the answers about you only do nice things to other people to get things back. Honestly, I for one would have to say that this doesn't really ever happen. People will always treat you like shit if they choose to. Even family members can do it to you. I find it so bizarre that it can happen, don't you? That we can go every day doing the right things, yet people will step all over us in a minute if they have a chance at personal gain.
Do you think people should be more attentive to the fact that they do this, or more to that of they themselves should try to be more of a person who tried to be a selflessness person.
I have had a lot of thinking about this, especially with my recent business endeavor. The possibilities that it will not work out, that it will fail. That I'm not the right person to lead this group. And the fact that I have put so much onto the people who have agreed to attempt this with me, yet how bad for them I will feel if I fail them.
And even with this, I am technically making this about myself, defeating the purpose of being an altruistic person, or at least trying to be. Or is it, by caring about what happens to them, and not having the worry about what would happen to me, other than knowing I would feel guilty about what happened, it comes back the Abraham Lincoln and his pigs, and stopping to save them, because he knew he would always remember that if he hadn't stopped to save them he would feel bad for not stopping in the first place.
So to ask the question. What if you don't care what happens to you but you care about what happens to everyone else? Can someone learn to be this way?
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