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81. A train of thought

Think about how it is possible to see different ways of reward in the society. Who it is that give rewards, can be different. What it is that is rewarded, can be different. Why rewards are handed out, can be different. And it can be different sorts of rewards.

It can be possible to see two different motives for rewards.

1.) A person or people can be rewarded for something they did, without thinking about getting a reward for it. People only did something, because they wanted to achieve an unselfish result. After that, others started to think about that this deserves a reward.

2.) A person or people can start to think about rewarding something, which they want people to do. Because of that, people can do something because they want a selfish reward.

There can be two motives behind why rewards are handed out; an unselfish motive, or a selfish motive. Of course this only is a theoretical systematization, to put the thoughts in order. The reality is typical always composed of more than such theoretical systematizations.

After thinking about these things, I get thoughts about that selfish rewards don’t need to be something negative. It is too much selfishness, which is negative. Both an individual’s own life, and the fellowship; are important. These two factors can also work together. It is imbalance between selfishness and unselfishness, which is negative.

This train of thought came after I had started to write about this. I hadn’t thought about these different aspects beforehand. I started to think about this one day ago. I only thought about how rewards can be different things, when I started to write this text. This fast short text hasn’t gone thoroughly into this topic, this is only some opening thoughts about this. I publish this text now, because I don’t want to use more than 24 hours on this topic.

Such texts I write, are different short texts about many different things. I think; that it is many different things, which we must start to think more about. I think that this diversity of thoughts; creates fusions of thoughts, trains of thought, logical conclusions, etc. I think it is important to resuscitate this diversity of thoughts, because I think the criminals have ruined this in ways we haven’t understood. If the balance of diversity disappears, then we lose our intellectual creative power, and our cultural development becomes thinned out.

I think the criminals, who do crimes against humans’ minds, have been taken up with how they can influence to, that rewards can work in ways they want. I think they have wanted to use rewards in sly ways, which both can be something negative and dangerous.

It is possible to think that it is something natural regarding rewards. Because of that, it also is possible to think that the criminals ruin what is natural regarding rewards. For humankind it is important that we reward what is positive for humankind. What is best for humankind, is also best for the whole world. That conclusion can be said the inverted way; what is best for the whole world, is also best for humankind.

It is possible to say; that to care about others is a natural demand, to care about oneself is a natural right. I think a natural balance between these two factors, is the basis for happiness and a successful social development.

November 9, 2016, David H. Hegg