One must be able to recognize a need in order to sacrifice one's own self for the betterment of another. Charity and selflessness, two admirable characteristics which produce a like result. Both actions or thoughts come from the compassion we feel to express or acknowledge. Our ability to think beyond ourselves is also displayed in nature as nurture within other animal species. It is not unique to us but is shared by most sentient creatures. I absolutely marvel at the simplicity of interaction we and like animals express. I will continue to contend that once we understand our own nature and the nature we have within our community, our societal problems will begin to disappear. We have been dominated by other expressions that have been forwarded as instincts and behaviors of value. The continuous progression of less than honest ideals has left us incomplete as to society and our own personal intuitiveness. What is the purpose of being alive? To answer that we erected goals of short and long-term durations. We have chosen a system that values accomplishment over any other form. Accomplishment is means to what result? It seems a bit odd that we progress certain achievements without having a guiding principle for their particular achievement, other than the obvious monetary reward. It seems that the means has also become the end. The value of monetary accumulation has even become of greater value as a self achievement than any other purpose one might give thought toward. Has the value of the means overcome and replaced the reason to get to an end? Our ideals are of a principled nature and therefore must allow, for those who trumpet them, evidence of thought and action for the meaning of principled ideals to be real.
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