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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 2900931" data-attributes="member: 22424">Risking harm to self for the benefit of others? Yes, that's Good.I would back that with a quote, but my books are at home.I was addressing the assertion that to do good you have to "help people for the sole sake of helping them". To do so, all I need to show is one example of a Good act that has a motivation beyond "the sole sake" of doing good. So...Every time a firefighter enters a burning building to pull someone out of the fire, they risk bodily harm for the benefit of others. They do so to help others, it is true, but that is not the sole motivation - it is also their job, and presumably it is a job they enjoy.Does that make the act not Good? No. The fact remains he risked bodily harm for others.Note: I have not stated that all firefighters, paramedics, soldiers (or any other group) are therefore Good. My case is that some of these individuals do Good acts for reasons that go beyond "the sole sake" of doing Good.Having taken me up on "unproved assumptions", you shouldn't be making them either. Provide support for your use of the word "unselfishly" please.Which is what I said.</blockquote>