Issues with foreign aid work (split from utilitarian thread)

[TheOriginalGrumpySpy]

It's necessary to understand that people want to do good because they want to feel good. It's so they can check it off their list of things they did and then brag about it at dinner parties.

The people that truly do good are the ones you never see or hear about. They do what they do because the love doing it and are there to truly make a difference, not be noted for it.

[gwahir]

It's necessary to understand that people want to do good because they want to feel good. It's so they can check it off their list of things they did and then brag about it at dinner parties.

The people that truly do good are the ones you never see or hear about. They do what they do because the love doing it and are there to truly make a difference, not be noted for it.

That's a little naive, I feel. If people want to be noted for doing good, they've still "truly done good" (providing they haven't lied about it or whatnot, but we're not talking about that).

Also, there's a lot to be said for the power of "celebrity philanthropy"; becoming noted for doing good might encourage or inspire others to do good too. Thus it might be said that doing good and becoming famous for it may well be even better than doing good and never have it be heard about.