Personal Happiness -VS- Contributing To Society


Which is more important in your eyes, personal happiness or contributing to society  

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  1. 1. Which is more important...

    • Seeking personal happiness
      19
    • Compromising enjoyment for productivity and giving to society
      7
    • A mix of both, with a little more personal enjoyment
      28
    • A mix of both, with a little more contributing to society
      10
    • Other
      3


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What is more important to you as a person? Seeking your own personal happiness and seeing that your needs and esires are met, or doing what you can to contribute to society, though it may compromise your personal happiness?

Not trying to imply you can't have one without the other, but this is semi-hypothetical here, so use a bit of imagination. ;)

I myself and voting for a mix of both, with a little more personal happiness. I'm a big fan of doing favors for others and making other peopl ehappy. I contribute to society more on a person to person basis than through things like community service, jobs and so forth. I feel we all need to find an inner truth and calm and exhert this on our surrounding humans. That's one of the reasons I feel personal happiness is more important, because if you're a mess yourself, you'll often project that onto others etc. I'll shut up.

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Well helping others makes you happy, so if you think about it, everything you do goes towards personal happiness.

Agreed, but..."Not trying to imply you can't have one without the other, but this is semi-hypothetical here, so use a bit of imagination. wink.gif"

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I voted for only personal happiness. I'm obviously the most important person in my life, so I should work to make myself happy first. If contributing to society makes me happy by giving me some sort of warm fuzzy feeling, then I'll contribute to society, but I don't at all feel compelled to do so.

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I just try to be normal. Be nice when it feels natural to be nice and keep myself to myself when that feels right.

I found being honest all the time has helped me be the happiest I've been in years, even if it's not what someone wants to hear. As long as you tell the truth all the time, everything works out.

And yes, I don't even tell white lies. It's quite liberating to actually look someone in the eye and tell them the complete opposite of the "polite" expected response.

I'm not rude, just honest.

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Being able to help others or contributing to others is most effective if you yourself are in a good state. So that begins with personal happiness. But helping others helps you to be in a better state.

(so which goes first?)

Vote: Other.

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I just try to be normal. Be nice when it feels natural to be nice and keep myself to myself when that feels right.

I found being honest all the time has helped me be the happiest I've been in years, even if it's not what someone wants to hear. As long as you tell the truth all the time, everything works out.

And yes, I don't even tell white lies. It's quite liberating to actually look someone in the eye and tell them the complete opposite of the "polite" expected response.

I'm not rude, just honest.

Agreed on all points.

Sorry for the ****ty poll too. The two aren't really that seperate and it's just going to make discussion kind of confusing...**** it.

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... it's just going to make discussion kind of confusing...**** it.

Your recent discussion threads have been quite interesting. (Y) they usually provoke quite alot of ...er... discussion. :p

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Mix of both, with more personal happiness. That extra personal happiness is what comes out of helping people for me, so no guilt there.

I absolutely love helping people... It gives me a sense of accomplishment and importance, so it's all good with me.

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I voted "mix with a bit more personal happiness".

I like helping people and I feel it is important that everyone cntributes to society because that is how humans have managed to survive for so long (by helping each other). But of course personal happiness allows people to function properly, I think it has the edge on importance - for me at least.

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it depends what you do. for me right now personal happiness is more important. but if i would be working on some important to society jobs ( i.e. reaching mars, or any other more realistic job :p) then contributing to society would be more important.

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What is more important to you as a person? Seeking your own personal happiness and seeing that your needs and esires are met, or doing what you can to contribute to society, though it may compromise your personal happiness?

Not trying to imply you can't have one without the other, but this is semi-hypothetical here, so use a bit of imagination. ;)

I myself and voting for a mix of both, with a little more personal happiness. I'm a big fan of doing favors for others and making other peopl ehappy. I contribute to society more on a person to person basis than through things like community service, jobs and so forth. I feel we all need to find an inner truth and calm and exhert this on our surrounding humans. That's one of the reasons I feel personal happiness is more important, because if you're a mess yourself, you'll often project that onto others etc. I'll shut up.

Of course personal happiness. Screw everyone else (except your family)!

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I think it's gay how people stand around and ask for money. There are so many government programs out there that we pay taxes for so you can clean up your life. In the US anyway. Find the saftey net and take it to bed.

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