<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post3163849600986273895..comments</id><updated>2010-03-10T17:37:48.172-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on OnFiction: Altruism</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.onfiction.ca/feeds/3163849600986273895/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5455277388900637928/3163849600986273895/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.onfiction.ca/2010/03/altruism.html'/><author><name>Maja Djikic</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16522265542660035768</uri><email>Maja.Djikic@gmail.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-5784572613753903769</id><published>2010-03-10T17:37:48.168-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T17:37:48.168-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you, Anonymous, for this comment. I agree th...</title><content type='html'>Thank you, Anonymous, for this comment. I agree that this is an argument; the issue, as it seems to me, is what you want to follow from it. If you focus on intangible satisfaction for a benefactor then you might conclude that humans are essentially individual and that all we need to consider are individual rewards (satisfactions), but it&amp;#39;s possible that what follows from altruism is that human life has an inherent social element, and this opens up a different perspective.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5455277388900637928/3163849600986273895/comments/default/5784572613753903769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5455277388900637928/3163849600986273895/comments/default/5784572613753903769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.onfiction.ca/2010/03/altruism.html?showComment=1268260668168#c5784572613753903769' title=''/><author><name>Keith Oatley</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13777932294340633380'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.onfiction.ca/2010/03/altruism.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-3163849600986273895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5455277388900637928/posts/default/3163849600986273895' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-6406109453718918828</id><published>2010-03-10T15:37:33.632-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T15:37:33.632-05:00</updated><title type='text'>True altruism is an illusion: no person can ever p...</title><content type='html'>True altruism is an illusion: no person can ever perform an action that is soley to benefit of someone else, for doing something good for someone else will envitably lead to some sort of intangible satisfaction on the part of the benefactor.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5455277388900637928/3163849600986273895/comments/default/6406109453718918828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5455277388900637928/3163849600986273895/comments/default/6406109453718918828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.onfiction.ca/2010/03/altruism.html?showComment=1268253453632#c6406109453718918828' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.onfiction.ca/2010/03/altruism.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-3163849600986273895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5455277388900637928/posts/default/3163849600986273895' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>