Re: On being self-centered
The problem with all that is that there aren't happiness points, and you can't mathematicize happiness.
I think it's intuitively obvious (to me, anyway) that being happy requires some kind of balance between helping out others (especially people you care about) and making sure you get what you want out of life.
I guess you could argue that when I help others, I only do so for selfish reasons (i.e., it makes me happy to help), but I think that point of view is really solipsistic and wrong.
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