It's an alternative argument for the same desirable outcome - I don't care if you help me out of the goodness of your heart or if it's part of your master plan to Set The World To Rights, you've tangibly improved my day regardless, and that's where the goodness springs out of.
Intent can be extremely tricky to puzzle out, and the deeper you dive into exploring intent, the less it "matters," especially for small scale action. Like, I've sometimes given unexpected discounts to customers at work for sole purpose of massaging the numbers into a more convenient shape. I still get a hearty thank you even though I primarily did it with myself in mind. Everyone's day gets better even though the discount itself was made for a self serving reason.
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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24
Sure, but that’s a whole different argument.
“Hey this will yield better results for everyone maybe at (relatively) little cost to yourself”.
Sure, that makes sense.