Hierarchy+of+needs+BCHO



> A: I think we are motivated by the desire to save our off-spring because sociological research proved that people would protect their children and they would try to save themselves to save their offsprings. > A: Based on the website, there is usually a intrinsic reward. The intrinsic reward can be “neurochemical rewards,” “personal pride,” “social reward,” or “the want of power over others.” It is mentioned how all these rewards drives us to do good. > A: Obviously. We usually feel good even though no one is looking or knows. For example, if you find a home for a lost dog or something, you’d feel good inside because you just did a good deed. We also feel less guilty if we do a good deed. Even if no one was looking and you did a bad deed, you would probably feel guilty and uneasy. So to avoid all the guilt, people tend to usually do good. > A: Part of the reason why we do good might be because of the delayed reciprocal altruism. When we do something good for someone, like help them with a project or something, we usually expect that they would have done the same for us if the roles were reversed. > A: I also thought that we were being selfless when committing an act of altruism. But, the website obviously thought differently. From the website, I learnt that we can’t ever truly be “selfless” when committing altruism. The reason behind it was how there were always invisible reasons and wants that continued us to do good. For example, if you help someone with a homework, you might ask them to help you with a homework later. 
 * 1) Are we, as some might say, motivated by a desire to save our off-spring?
 * 1) Must there always be some sort of intrinsic reward for doing good?
 * 1) 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?
 * 1) "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?
 * 1) Are we ever being truly "selfless" when committing an act of altruism?


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

A: Public media is the major factor that affects people's eating disorder. What do you see when you turn on television, you see plastic fake human beings modeling, singing, and acting. Because of this thought of "beauty" that is thought of in this era, people do many horrible things to be like the plastic stars that are in the T.V. People should really know that those bodies and those skinny lines are from millions and millions of dollar investment into their beauty and even if you have the money there is certain body characteristics that you have to be born with to be beautiful as the stars. ** > > A: If there is a gay gene, there are numerous implications socially and politically. First of all, if there being a gay gene is clearly proven, then homosexuals would demand legal protection just like other racial discrimination laws. Homosexuals, once proven that their sexual orientation originate from genes, would want laws to protect their equality from the government. Socially, there would be a movement in trying to "cure" the "defect" in the gene. This is what many homosexuals worry about. Once the existence of gay genes is proven, scientists and therapists are going to try to find a "cure" or some kind of therapy to get rid of the gay genes or try to fix them as if they are defects that need "fixing". Being homosexual would no longer be accepted in the society as a choice but more of a innate characteristic. A disadvantage socially would be that some people might think of homosexuals as sick people due to a defect in their genes. **
 * 1) **What might be the social/political implications for there being a gay gene?