disguise―done to avoid unpleasant feelings of guilt, to give oneself pleasure, or to
obligate another person. However, this counter argument suffers from three critical
problems. First, some examples of altruism are difficult to describe in terms of self-
interest alone. Consider the soldier who falls on a grenade to save his companions. It
would be nonsensical to assert that this soldier is acting selfishly when he knows his
action will certainly result in his own immediate death. Second, the argument offends
our intuition that human motivation is far more complex. Third, it relies on a poor
assumption: just because we feel good about helping others, it does not follow that the
only reason we help is in order to feel good.
In sum, the speaker oversimplifies human nature. All human motivation cannot be
reduced to fear and self-interest. We can also be motivated by altruism, and the pleasure
we might take in helping others is not necessarily an indication that our actions are
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