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Originally Posted by shnu  Claiming the two approaches lead to the same place strikes me as rather strange. Why would the DW cook for people he/she knows will never return the favour? It seems to me that there's a big difference to how DWs and LWs treat the weak that higher awareness isn't going to eradicate. |
That's absolutely true and there may be many different effects and it does not have to work out this way all the time. Especially not at this point in time. For the DW the intention is always selfish and for the LW the intention is always to serve the greater good. However, at some point the DW will realize by being overly selfish he destroys his environment and therefore he destroys himself with it. Therefore it
becomes in his own self interest to serve the greater good. For the LW the story is vice versa. He realizes that he has to be 'selfish' in order to better to serve the greater good.
You are right about a DW not willing to cook for people who will never return the favour; but can you see that both the LW path and DW path COULD lead to the same place?