Claim: No act is done purely for the benefit of others.
Reason: All actions — even those that seem to be done for other people — are based on self-interest.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Helping others is a decent trait in a personality. However, we are not living in Utopia, where everybody is helping everybody without seeking any benefits. Actually, providing aid to those, whom are in need, contributes to stabilizing the whole community. Yet, the most probable solution is a win-win situation, that everybody is benefiting. Therefore, I mostly disagree with the statement due to the following three reasons:
First of all, people in our world are divided into different classes and always the resources have been scarce and people's numbers are rising. So, any society has helpless people, who are in deep need of help. This kind of people deserves unconditional support from those, who can. For instance, people in central Africa are living in the worst living conditions and some entities are delivering aid of millions of dollars. Certainly, they will receive appreciation, prestige, and publicity from all over the world, though it cannot be compared with the value of the aid. Thus, these kinds of actions can be considered as voluntary with no self-interest.
Secondly, human nature and his desire for everything, have a great influence on one's actions. Despite his true initial will of offering free help, he may change his mind to obtain any benefit. For example, a guy is helping a girl completing her essays free of charge. On one hand, at first glance, he might see, that the girl is really struggling with writing. On the other hand, he saw a chance, which the girl can support himself emotionally. In this case, a free act of help was offered, a need was discovered and the influence of that need on the act itself, changed it to be a mutual benefit action, where both of the parties are benefited.
Finally, self-interest is the prime mover in nearly all situations. It has a great impact on an individual's attitude. His personality will search for any possibility, which he can utilize it to achieve his goals. For example, a man who wants to immigrate, having this as his primary target, may have an opportunist behavior, waiting for any chance to profit from, even by offering help to others. Even this help is time-consuming, needs assiduous efforts or has a minor impact on him. He will do it anyway, to get closer to his goals. Thus, self-interest comes always first, though this about only a clash of personalities.
All in all, acts intrinsically have a motive. This motive could be a belief to help others out of religion, the desire of something in particular or a mere self-interest in a certain thing. Therefore, the issue is really a complex one, as it depends on personalities, which are too many to be counted. The majority of people do not act with no self-interest, despite this fact, the self-interest itself could be noble.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rsonality. However, we are not living in Utopia, where everybody is helping every...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...true initial will of offering free help, he may change his mind to obtain any ben...
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Line 7, column 98, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
...situations. It has a great impact on an individuals attitude. His personality will search f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, anyway, but, finally, first, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, for example, for instance, in particular, kind of, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2316.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 471.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91719745223 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8934884895 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543524416136 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 736.2 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.2878311947 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.7777777778 118.986275619 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4444444444 23.4991977007 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88888888889 5.21951772744 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219945940841 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0565311028361 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0454053933633 0.0758088955206 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123325260446 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531421525908 0.0667264976115 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.96 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.