Can we actually do good to others?!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMar 1, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“A good test to know yourself is to ask yourself who am I, and what could you do to make the world a better place?”

Trying to do good to others is good. But asking ourselves what to do is not useful, effective, since the egocentric, subjective self will always tell us what we want to hear, what we consider good for ourselves.

Thus when we try to do good to others through our inherently egocentric, subjective viewpoint it never ends up being actually good for others.

On the other hand, if we just simply go to the street and start asking people what we could do to them, what they want from us, it also turns into a disaster as they will also exploit our good intentions, approach in their own inherently selfish, egocentric, subjective ways.

So is there no solution for doing good to others then?!

There is.

We can practice this “doing good to others” in special, purposefully and methodically arranged and conducted environments, where people can start taking action for unity, mutually supportive, mutually complementing actions until they gradually reveal, recognize how their inherently 100% egocentric, subjective, selfish and exploitative nature does not allow them to actually do good to others, especially if it does not agree with their own introverted calculations.

And only when we truly got to know ourselves, how we inherently are, as we already recognized the inherently selfish, egoistic, exploitative forces, desires, intentions in us, then we can we actually start changing, correcting ourselves.

Then, in the end, if we keep to the purposeful, methodical process unique empirical scientists — who have been studying human nature in contrast to Nature’s perfectly balanced system — developed for us, we will be able to do good to others and sustain unique mutual cooperation above and against our inherent nature, without suppressing, erasing anything.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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