When you take being selfless - literally.

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 Being selfish is bad if you live in a community that values collective progress. However, humans are mortal; we have a single lifetime, and our goals may be limited to the short interval that we have. Even though our actions matter, they only matter in a significant way to our own lives. Modern societies love order and keep things relatively calm and systematic. Abrupt changes and the public being emotional don't really fit right with the public today.

Each average member of humanity only contributes to a very small part of the collective journey; most humans live for their own or for the survival of the local community they are part of. 

We live in a time where companies and governments love social loafing. Even though democracies value public opinion, it never goes too well. Modern democracies have found ways to use social loafing as a way out of constant instability in the order of their state.

However, even in times of laziness and great public apathy, we live together. We form this organism, which is alive and feels pain, and wants to get better. 

But what if you take the idea of being selfless too literally? What if our society upheld the opinions of each human being?

Imagine a relationship where a person likes a different person from a very selfless lens. However, their partner decides to cheat on them, but the person is too selfless they consider this a way that make their partner happier. 

In "Murder Song" by AURORA, a character referred to as 'he' kills the protagonist to 'spare [her] from the awful things' in life. Thereby 'saving her' from the perils she otherwise would have to struggle through.


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