Jamie+Motivation



1. Are we, as some might say, motivated by a desire to save our off-spring? Yes, I think people are motivated by a desire to save our off-springs, even though we have more important relations like our friendship. Our off-spring would be the most important human kind, and we would want to protect our children very much.

2.Must there always be some sort of intrinsic reward for doing good? No, there shouldn't be some sort of intrinsic reward for doing good because, some of the good things could be something required. And even though we always do good things we should think that as helping others and the poor.

3.Mr. Otis once said, "That having integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching." If this is so, and no one knows when we have done good, would you still do good? Yes, I would still do good because even though nobody was there to reward me or cheer me I would earn pleasure and pride. Good things are not to be done only when other people are watching.

4."Delayed reciprocal altruism", seems like a gamble - back to game theory, any way. Does this seem to make sense to you. That is that we act out of a desire to have what we have done being done to us? I believe this is not true because you don’t always act to have your desire, you do show pureness and desire to what you really want.

5. Are we ever being truly "selfless" when committing an act of altruism? No, we are not being truly selfless when committing an act of altruism because again we show our pureness when we really want something.


 * What seems to be the major motivating factor(s) for people that are affected by an eating disorder?**

The major motivating factors for people that are affected by an eating disorder are mainly the media and what people see everyday. Now in the 21st century television shows are a high popularity to all age groups, from kids to adults. Every channel you change to there would be a skinny beautiful men or women acting their roles for different shows. And teenage boys and girls who see this in their everyday life feel guilty of their weight and start to have problems. They would feel very anxious and start to panic which causes them to not eat and starve themselves. However this starving method is a great harm to your own body and your brain. Also another disorder would be eating too much that they would have to throw up to feel better. This eating disorder is becoming a problem, therefore in the modeling world agencies discriminate overweight models or sometime called plus size models. Plus size models mean they weigh more than skinny models. However this started to change when plus size models started to gain up their confidence and start to show themselves to the outer world. Models are a huge role models to teenagers therefore this would help prevent eating disorders. Overall, the media is a huge influence to eating disorders and this problem needs to be fixed.


 * What might be the social/political implications for there being a gay gene?**

There would be several social/political implication for there being a gay gene. Homosexual relationships are always a problem because they are not proven by the government. However if gay genes are proven they would want protection from the government like other races and groups. Homosexuals would want equal treatment and equal protection from the government. Even though gay genes would be proven the society wouldn’t allow this so doctors and psychologist would try to find a cure. The society would treat gay gene’s as a sickness or mental disorder and try to give cures to fix this. Homosexuals would never be proven to the society, they would be always unacceptable.