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by Turncoat

They help them because if they don't they'd feel worse about themselves. It's still self-gratification, it's just done through using another as a sort of proxy for it.

Somewhat of a tangent, but have you ever read up on Survivor's Guilt?

The idea that "they would feel worse about themselves" is a massive assumption. They might very well feel nothing at all. If I help someone I don't think about it, I just get on with what I was doing. 

Yeah, I think Ed summarized this well. Never mind looking for perverse motivations, there are assholes and nice people. 

How often do you make the choice to not help someone?

sometimes, for sure. 

There's no mistake, little bitch. You'll always stand out as a cocksucker, because that's all you're good for.

What judges when you won't help someone?

Well, I agree with most part. Still, if you're in need of somethng, you'll go to a "nice" person to ask for help and avoid the asshole. You already make a separation in your mind. From a practical pov, the differentiation is necessary...

When the reason they behave as they do is nurture, it means their charity could be temporary, and their goodness may be less than genuine. It could just be the limited sample of people I've been exposed to, if not my own trust issues, but I haven't met someone who is "good" without some form of strings attached.

The paranoia aspects of how I think apparently care about that sort of thing. It probably just helps me reinforce my unwillingness to trust people, recognizing that face value "good" versus "bad" is safer when assuming everyone's teetering toward "bad".