Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
Even if someone else benefits from it, you're initial step to action was because you felt bad for someone first, not because you genuinely wanted to help them first.




Sympathy can be said to be related to selfishness.. even if good does come out of it, it was only initiated because of selfishness even if they are seemingly innocent.

I could argue that all actions are preformed in some way for selfish reasons. If doing something for yourself is evil, than every person in the world is a demon. Think of everything you do in a day, can you say you did something that gave you no benefit whatsoever? Everything you do, even altruistic actions feed the ego somehow, so why bother calling sympathy evil or not genuine?