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I just finished watching a Pursuit of Happyness, a classic movie embedded within the annals of history now, and an interesting question has popped up within my consciousness.
So after dwelling over what constitutes as happiness, why does doing a good deed create a moment of happiness?
Something that offers almost no direct benefit to you (the good deed) has the potential to indirectly create benefits for you AND the reliever.
If the former can be considered more or less true, than why doesn't everyone fill their days with carrying out good deeds so that both they AND an additional person can benefit from one person carrying out what simply started as a thought in their head?
 
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Because we don't know better or can't help ourselves.
But in general, I would vigorously dispute that doing good deeds is a necessary condition for happiness; but then again, I'm talking about happiness as well-being instead of a psychological state of somesort.
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Good deeds make you likable, or at least prevents you from being not likable. And pretty much everyone wants to be likable.
In a sense you could argue that the reason you do good deeds is because you want the appreciation (or lack of disappointment) which the receiver of the deed will (most likely) show you.
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Because most people, dont care about other people, only about themselves.
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