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Originally Posted by Brutha  Marxists aren't morally flexible believe that force is necessary to produce chance. |
"This not a sentence, because it no verb!"
This thread is not intended to discuss politics - it is to advise people not to '
throw out the baby with the bathwater' by failing to appreciate individuals, and distinctions which are easily lost beneath sweeping generalizations, such as labels.
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Originally Posted by The OP Mother Teresa in Calcutta was satisfying her existential craving for communing with her god, guarantying her eventual sanctity, and her legacy. These things ARE REWARDS IN THEMSELVES, and compensated her for her 'sacrifice'. | Just because someone gets a reward doesn't mean that the reward was the cause for their action. |
That can certainly be true. A construction worker whose job entails lifting 200lb H-beams all day, every day, would no-doubt become powerfully muscled as an unintended by-product of his activities. However, if he were to become a body-builder, or power-lifter, then the resultant muscles would be the reward for his hard labour, beyond his salary as a construction worker.
Mother Teresa forswore individual identity, material possessions, and sex in all forms - including masturbation - and dedicated herself to the austerity of her Order.
She spent most of her life helping out the impoverished and disaffected in her country, entirely for the personal satisfactions she garnered - the sensations of existential bliss and divine concordance in which revealed - which provided her with sufficient rewards to justify her efforts. The sainthood, fame, etc were 'side-effects' of her actions, and most-likely didn't add significantly to her sense of completion and joy.
Had she not wished to do what she was doing, she could not have been able to experience the internally-generated rewards which justified her actions - and therefore she would have been miserable to a degree I hesitate to contemplate.
Johnny Soporno
Worthy Playboy