Helping others

[Kjertesvein]

What's your idea about helping others or do you have some dominant idea before helping others?

I believe I always got a helping hand for any soul (to help is always a virtue)
I love helping other poor souls. I recieve personal joy out of helping others and that helps them to achive great goals.

If someone ask nicly (humility or submission)
One has to submit to the helper, which is an important aspect of helping others and I won't help people who are going to derail from my way of helping.

Only if it's worthy by my criteria (please specify)
I have a citeria I go by when helping others. Things I will do warmly and others/things I will stand cold by - Even in death and depression for my closest companion.

Only if I get something in return (there is value for me in doing it)
There is a thank you involced, or indirectly money, service or some other things involved is one of the most important aspect for me to help others.



Reflect on your life, and honesty will become your friend.


~Wille

[Telys]

I picked the first because I will always try to help someone who either looks like they need help or asks. I can think of the last thing I did to help someone. A man at a gas station asked me for a ride. It was around 3am and I do not trust people enough to be alone with anyone I don't know. So i told him I would call him a cab. He then continued on about how he can't pay for the cab. So I asked where he was going. I called the cab, told them the pick up and destination and asked for a price estimate. I gave him the nessecary amount of money and went on my way. Now I'm not completely naive. I understand that it is very likely he took my money and did not wait for the cab. But in the chance that he honestly did need a ride I helped regardless of what he could do with the money. If I was in that situation I would want the help. So I help people when I can. I had money to spare. So i helped. I remember before I left he asked me why I did it. I told him I liked to be nice.

For a situtation on where I refused to help someone. I was standing in front of a hotel and a man came up to and asked me fro gas money because his crippled son was waiting in the car and they were on the way to get his medicine. Clearly, to me, this man was lying and tried to think of a story that people would sympathize with. Which I did not. But I may have been wrong to refuse. I will never know.

[Taiji]

I prefer to help others to stand on there own 2 feet.

[Hilarion]

I prefer to help others to stand on there own 2 feet.

And what if they're crippled?

[Taiji]

And what if they're crippled?

Well as long as it's not their feet/legs that are crippled then it will probably work

... Or maybe we can compromise and use handstands

[.Achilles.]

I'll always help a man when he's down, so to speak. However, he has to be willing to help himself, I have no respect for people who complain/moan/whinge constantly without action, looking for handouts.

[mw2xboxplayer]

I prefer to help those who are willing to help me back in return or at least acknowledge my service to them, not just take advantage of my assistance and never say a sincere "Thanks".

[Thanatos]

Where is the "I help almost always but not always" choice? I assist others, but I don't exactly go way out of my way to do so (unless you are considering donating time at community charities/centers to qualify for that).

[Ancient Aliens]

I only help those who cannot help themselves.

[Veliky Kaiser Theos]

The correct answer is option 4. Even if you're helping for the sake of being good, you're doing it for that warm fuzzy feeling inside, not that that's a bad thing.

[Ancient Aliens]

The correct answer is option 4. Even if you're helping for the sake of being good, you're doing it for that warm fuzzy feeling inside, not that that's a bad thing.

Some of us do help others based on rational concepts, such as bettering humanity. Although I agree, if ou do something just to feel good about it, you are doing it for a gain, even if it is an emotional one.

[Kjertesvein]

As a boy of 11 years old, I was curious as to how Africans on TV was always poor, as opposed to Europeans. I couldn't make it fly with the idea that some people were activly helping them, jet the Africans were stuck. Now I have a pretty good idea as to why (in regards to the absolute failure of foreign aid), and I sorta want to apply the same principles to my everyday life. I know it's a very complex topic and I've been stuck in for a while.

~Wille

[Claudius Gothicus]

I help because of a global need and no, sometimes when I do it I don't really ''feel better'' about it... especially when it's little drugged up kids in the streets, I know that if they survive they are tremendously conditioned into poverty, crime and death their chances are slim... but if none does anything is going to stay the same, I accept it nevertheless.

[Admiral Piett]

I used to try to help everyone I could that needed help. Then I realized how damned selfish people are and how much they take that for granted and not respect you for it. So now its only with people that really need help and if I'm the mood for it.

[Adrian]

Helping individual people is ineffective and most of the time I would not and will not consider it. I find it better to help society as whole even if some are to be lost or sacrificed in the process. Its a of matter of numbers here.

[Justice and Mercy]

If someone ask nicly (humility or submission)
One has to submit to the helper, which is an important aspect of helping others and I won't help people who are going to derail from my way of helping.

Depends on how you mean it.

On one hand, they must realize that they have no right to your help. You can walk away without a single moral blemish.

On the other, I would not help a man because he is wretched. There must be some value left in him, something I see worth saving.

[Dan the Man]

I will tentatively say "Only if it's worthy by my criteria." I will not help somebody to achieve something that is against my moral code.

[CarbEast]

You're missing the fifth option:
"Do you honestly consider yourself a helpful person?"
- 5. Nope.