InfiniteNow Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 Thread moved to Philosophy & Humanities Quote
InfiniteNow Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 It's really different for everyone. Some people sacrifice because they've been taught that it's good to do so. Others because it's a loved one to whom they are giving. There are many religious theories out there on this, but you might want to check Evolutionary Psychology as well. Ethics and evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA key question for evolutionary psychology to address is how altruistic feelings and behaviors evolved when the process of natural selection is based on competition between different genes. Key theoriesKin altruism: Altruism between close relatives can be selected for (i.e. the genes disposing an organism towards the behaviour could have succeeded) if the donor and recipient are significantly more related than two individuals picked from the population at random. This is because there is a high-enough probability that copies of the genes predisposing the organisims towards the altruistic beahviour are contained in the genome of both parties involved. (Direct) reciprocal altruism: This is the basic "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" relationship and lies at the heart of evolutionary ethics. It states that by helping others at some cost to ourself, we can receive help in return which can make the altruism ultimately beneficial to the genes that predispose organisms towards it. (Indirect) reciprocal altruism expands this concept to include reciprocation by third parties, and indicates the possible evolutionary importance of 'moral' reputation. Group selection theories. These argue that genes which dispose organisms to benefit the entire group or species, regardless of any benefit to the individual concerned relative to others in the group, may still have succeeded during evolution, thus providing an additional, and possibly 'higher' basis for ethics. I've moved the thread to Philosophy, as you're really asking, in a subtle way, a much deeper question than any one branch of science can adequately answer. :hyper: Quote
infamous Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 Why do we sacrafice?If you meant sacrifice; Some sacrifice to loose weight. Some may sacrifice their time to serve the needs of others. A good education deserves the sacrifice of not only time, money, and energy but also many times the preconceived ideas of the one being educated. It might be good if we examine the word a little. In my opinion, the sacrifice should never be of more value than the objective and or reason for it. One must then ask, can it really be defined as a true sacrifice? A fruitless sacrifice makes no sense and serves no purpose. A fruitless sacrifice can only be defined as foolishness........Infy Quote
wine Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Posted January 23, 2007 I don't know about you,but deep down I want to sacrafice something.I don't want to hurt any animal, but there's still this primal part of methat wants to end life.It's mysterious, very controlled, and subtle.I've never actually sacraficed anything,but the desire remains.It's just fascinating . . I seek to knowwhy this impulse surfaces. Quote
Racoon Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 Why does a suicide bomber sacrifice his life and as many others as possible?? Quote
infamous Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 Why does a suicide bomber sacrifice his life and as many others as possible??Because he's no longer with us, we can only assume that he falsely believes his act of suicide will promote the agenda of the group he follows. As I pointed out earlier, Foolishness........................Infy Quote
wine Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Posted January 23, 2007 Prefix:Sac Kind of like Sacred. Quote
rocket art Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 "Self minus selfishness." However, selfishness is the inner struggle of polarities that each one must address with one's self. Quote
Qfwfq Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 Prefix:Sac Kind of like Sacred.Indeed, sacrifice is from the Latin for "make sacred". It's like, "give something up for a superior purpose". Quote
wine Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Posted January 23, 2007 So sacrafices are extensions of our imagination? Maybe even...stress releiving? Quote
Turtle Posted January 23, 2007 Report Posted January 23, 2007 I don't know about you,but deep down I want to sacrafice something.I don't want to hurt any animal, but there's still this primal part of methat wants to end life.It's mysterious, very controlled, and subtle.I've never actually sacraficed anything,but the desire remains.It's just fascinating . . I seek to knowwhy this impulse surfaces. Save for arguably fruit, everything you eat was alive and killed and so sacrificed. No need to go out in search; much need to go in. :D wine 1 Quote
wine Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Posted January 23, 2007 Ah! The fruit sacrafice!Coconut gravity games 07! Quote
HydrogenBond Posted January 30, 2007 Report Posted January 30, 2007 Sacrifices, from the word, sacred, is sort of an exchange of ego-centricity for a higher good. Back in the ancient days, when they would sacrifice cattle, for example, that sacrifice meant a loss of wealth. The ego doesn't mind giving it to charity, for consumption by others so they can recieve a warm fuzzy pat on the back (plus tax deduction). But to kill the cattle and throw them into the fire, so it is totally gone, meant one did not recieved any direct ego-centric benefit. It probably hurt. Many probably had to brag to get something back for the ego. In that case the sacrifice was worth less to the gods (minus what the ego took back). In modern times, sacrificing ego-centricities, are still performed to reach a higher good. For example, the male will sacrifice his wild ways when he marries, so he can become a good husband and father. He is sacrificing ego-centric me for ego-centric us. If he doesn't make that sacrifice, he will often be worse at both. Quote
Dov Henis Posted January 30, 2007 Report Posted January 30, 2007 Not long ago I entered in my blog a brief comment on the subject of Altruism, in which I suggest that this is a basic feature of life... When any human (or other organism's) attribute is discussed I first ask myself what is the evolutionary root of the attribute...human shmuman, we are all organisms... Yahoo! 360° - Dov's Blog - Altruism Gene Quote
theblackalchemist Posted January 30, 2007 Report Posted January 30, 2007 well our family performs sacrifices during rituals for instance when some one dies in hindu culture 1 earth year= 1 heavenly dayso every year we make sacrifices to feed the dead we do it so by throwing them into a holy fire TBA Quote
ughaibu Posted January 30, 2007 Report Posted January 30, 2007 Drink the first beer for your friends who've died, the second for your friends who're absent and the third for yourself. Quote
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