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by badsandwitch 882 days ago
You get something in return for all the risks you listed.

This is why I said "If you are altruistic perhaps".

I'm not and I gain nothing by helping others after I'm dead.

Now if it was the case that in return for being an organ donor I get paid a good chunk of change or some other benefit then sure.

As things stand being an organ donor to me is similar to crossing roads while deliberately paying less attention.

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I think this stance can be better known as the mentality of a psychopath no?

Perhaps just of someone who has lived a very sheltered, privileged life and has never had to empathize with anyone else?

More likely it seems like some kind of mental issue related to sociopathy or psychopathy. I am not a psychologist but this view seems to fit my understanding of those diseases.

Psychopaths are incapable of feeling empathy. I merely restrict empathy to family, friends and people who are in a position to reciprocate. I do feel pity for people who succumb to the mental compulsion to empathize with everyone.
Unsure whether youre an edgy juvenile or if there is actually something wrong with you. Either way I do hope that someday the wonders of modern medicine come up with a way to help sick people who really do think the way you claim to think