Greg Salmieri
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1,054 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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And if anybody were living for himself or acting for himself, he'd just be satisfying some momentary desire, scratching an itch.
And that gives no meaning to life.
So the only meaning to life is to help other people have fewer itches to scratch.
I think that whole doctrine and the kind of life that's devoted to spreading that, I don't think is an admirable kind of life.
I think it's a life that's about upholding um
the pointless relief of suffering.
And I call it pointless because the point of relief suffering is to make possible something greater than that.
And if you don't really value
what people can make of and do with their lives.
uh then I don't think um there's any moral value to being fixated on suffering.
If you do, on the other hand, and you really want to see, you know, people in societies that are now poor uh prosper and people who are down on their luck prosper, because you have a vision of what's possible to human beings and you're trying to achieve that for yourself.
And you want other people to be able to achieve it.
And you understand this isn't something that we talked about, but you understand
That it's good for each of us in achieving that kind of life to have other people doing it around us.
And therefore, you're thinking about what can I do to help.
these other uh people and other places succeed better and how can I perhaps make it part of my life in one way or another, part of my career, part of my hobby, my advocacy goal, to help other people achieve the kinds of things that I'm trying to achieve in my life, maybe other people who haven't had the luck or breaks I have.
Then I think that's really admirable.
And there are people who are on that premise, who are, you know, devoting themselves to charity and to
other causes.
But if you think about the kind of
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