Eun+Soo+Suh+Motivation




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

People in this society are broadly exposed to the many types of the popular media such as television, movies, magazines, and posters. Having a thinness schema for girls and boys, the media with skinny body images promotes not only the teens but also adolescence to lose their weight. Todays, media has increasingly depicted females and males in a state of "skinniness."So that, teenage girls and boys who see those media tend to get easily influenced by the ideal type of beauty. Using an idea of "propaganda," people start to relate beauty with skinny body images of models. I believe it is truly unethical to use physical looks to make people to laugh or to tease about. However; there are people like comedians tend to emphasize the stereotypical idea of a skinny girl or a boy represents the real beauty by insulting heavy weighted people to make others and themselves to enjoy.


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

If there were a gay gene, I think many things that are related to social and political implications would be changed. Conservative people would probably less or not underestimate homosexual people. Homosexual people have to get legal protection.

1. Are we, as some might say, motivated by a desire to save our off-spring?
 * Altruism questions**

This is not just a simple thing to conclude that we (people) are motivated by a desire to save our off-spring. According to a website, “altruism is an illusion,” altruism is defined as self-interest. Thus, regarding “Universal Egoism” it is not right to portray that we are motivated by a desire to save our off-spring but rather we are already programmed to do good for our own self interest.

2. Must there always be some sort of intrinsic reward for doing good? Having some sort of intrinsic reward for doing good is preferable. Because as people do things good they tend to expect some sort of reward that they will be receiving.

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, why not. However, I wouldn’t try to do something that will require me to use a big amount of efforts or time. I honestly enjoy helping others and other altruistic acts because I often feel good after. However knowing that nothing is going to be rewarded, I would still do it but I wouldn’t’ put too much efforts on it.

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? It makes sense that altruism can be called as back to game theory. It is a type of superstition that I have in my mind but good things often come back to me when I acted on good things.

5. Are we ever being truly "selfless" when committing an act of altruism? It is true that people tend to seek reason for doing good because we are known that people are born to be “self-centered.” However; I think there are people who are “selfless” and tend to care more for other than themselves.