Do-Gooders Redux

From the Dom Post today:
Joe Bennett’s column title: “Do-gooders do no good”
Key paragraph: “Doing good makes people feel gooey inside, but it springs from exactly the same desire as warmongering. It springs from the desire to feel superior.”
(Joe Bennett is pretty moderate as far as columnists go in NZ newspapers, btw.)

3 thoughts on “Do-Gooders Redux”

  1. That is a rather blanket statement. In my experiance, people do good for a wide range of reasons.
    Some people actually do good because they would like others to help them if they were in the same position. Some people feel they owe it to others (usually if somebody has helped them in the past).
    People who do it to feel superior to the people they are helping are just jerks. Some people have no faith in humanity. :-/

  2. Did he define do-gooders, or did he just lump all doing good as the action of do-gooders? I haven’t read the article and I can’t quite tell from what you writ. It looks like the second one of these.(Thinking of your previous post about do-gooders here – as I guess you were)

  3. Does it matter what someones motives for doing good are, as long as they are doing good?
    Though I do believe that someones motives will effect the way they do good and thus may cause more harm.

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