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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 2900345" data-attributes="member: 39394"><p>I am so, so, so stupid for responding to this because you are not going to get it. I am going to say something and you are not going to get it, but I will say it again.</p><p></p><p>They are doing a job, which requires them to put themselves in harm's way, <strong>because it is a job they enjoy</strong>. And while some part of the enjoyment comes from the fact that they are helping others, a large part of it has to come from enjoying the routine, day-to-day life of the job. Someone who hates the job, hates the day to day routine of it, will not last, no matter how strong their desire to help others.</p><p></p><p>Please compare this to other risky, dangerous jobs, like being an oil rig operator or a logger or a North Atlantic fisherman. All of those jobs are, statistically speaking, more dangerous than being a fireman or a police officer. Yet people do them anyway, voluntarily, and no one is being directly helped by it.</p><p></p><p>Why do people do these ordinary (neutral) people do these jobs, which are more dangerous than being a fireman or a police officer? <strong>Because they enjoy their work and find pleasure in doing their jobs,</strong> which is a perfectly neutral (by D&D standards) reason to be doing something.</p><p></p><p>Most successful firemen and police officers do their jobs for the exact same reason. Not out of a Good (by D&D standards) desire to help people, but out of a Neutral (by D&D standards) enjoyment of their jobs.</p><p></p><p>And I'm confident that if you ask any long-time fireman or police officer, they will tell you exactly that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wolfwood2, post: 2900345, member: 39394"] I am so, so, so stupid for responding to this because you are not going to get it. I am going to say something and you are not going to get it, but I will say it again. They are doing a job, which requires them to put themselves in harm's way, [B]because it is a job they enjoy[/B]. And while some part of the enjoyment comes from the fact that they are helping others, a large part of it has to come from enjoying the routine, day-to-day life of the job. Someone who hates the job, hates the day to day routine of it, will not last, no matter how strong their desire to help others. Please compare this to other risky, dangerous jobs, like being an oil rig operator or a logger or a North Atlantic fisherman. All of those jobs are, statistically speaking, more dangerous than being a fireman or a police officer. Yet people do them anyway, voluntarily, and no one is being directly helped by it. Why do people do these ordinary (neutral) people do these jobs, which are more dangerous than being a fireman or a police officer? [B]Because they enjoy their work and find pleasure in doing their jobs,[/B] which is a perfectly neutral (by D&D standards) reason to be doing something. Most successful firemen and police officers do their jobs for the exact same reason. Not out of a Good (by D&D standards) desire to help people, but out of a Neutral (by D&D standards) enjoyment of their jobs. And I'm confident that if you ask any long-time fireman or police officer, they will tell you exactly that. [/QUOTE]
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