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.
The given prompt claims that no act is done purely for the benefit of others. The reason provided is that all actions including those that seem to be done for other people are based on self-interest. On one hand, there are some people or organizations that genuinely aspire to help others whereas on the other hand we can observe majority of the cases where so called selfless act includes self-interest in one form or the other. Needless to say, I agree that the there are almost no acts that are done purely for the benefits of others.
To begin with, there are majority of the people that only pretend to do a selfless act. But, in most of the cases there is self-interest involved, be it in the form of monetary gains or in the form of premium membership to an exclusive club. In fact, there are a variety of benefits that one can exploit for helping others. For instance, there are many famous personalities like Akshay Kumar and other actors in Indian cinema, some famous footballers like Cristiano Rolnaldo and Lionel Messi have donated a huge sum of money for covid relief in various parts. In fact they have donated entire hotels and converted them to hospitals when covid-19 was in its peak. There is no doubt that these helped a lot of people suffering from covid, but in turn they increased their prestige. These huge sums might not be anything for them but still their reputation and image was uplifted in the eyes of public. Hence, there is a very high possibility that the people are involved in self-interest in some way or another.
Furthermore, these donations are recieved by NGO's (non-governmental organizations). These NGO's also get the grant and priviledges offered by the government along with the dontations for their act. They, in turn, educate poor, disabled children and help those in need. Indeed they might do so, but, of the children that they have taught, there are not many examples of those who have actually enroled in a reputed university or their lives are better than their previous ones. Either they live in penury for most of their lives, or join a company at the position of a clerk or peun. Who knows what happens to the huge grants and donations that they recieve.
However, there are a few examples of people who have helped a lot with no intention of self-interest. Take the example of Sonu Sood, an Indian actor who majorly playes the role of villain in a movie, he took the risk of his life to arrange for travel for those citizens who could not go to their homes because of sudden lockdown in covid-19. There was no monetary gain involved and unline those mentioned above, he did not just sit at home, funding and paying men to arrange for the travel. He would have done that if his intension was increasing prestige. Instead he personally made sure that everyone reached their home safely. In fact, there are examples even at smaller levels. FOr instance, asking someone for help to make an urgent call in case of an emergency is a selfless act. No one asks for anything in return. On the contrary, they readily provide their cellphones. Thus, there are some cases where we can see that self-interest is not the intention of helping others.
Even though there are certain instances where the act was done as a favor and not so as to expect something in return, there are majority of the cases where there is always slef0interest involved. In conclusion, majority of the acts done are based on self-interest.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 26, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'majorities'?
Suggestion: majorities
... of others. To begin with, there are majority of the people that only pretend to do a...
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Line 5, column 267, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Indeed,
...sabled children and help those in need. Indeed they might do so, but, of the children ...
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Line 7, column 369, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... in covid-19. There was no monetary gain involved and unline those mentioned abov...
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Line 7, column 559, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
... his intension was increasing prestige. Instead he personally made sure that everyone r...
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Line 9, column 83, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ere the act was done as a favor and not so as to expect something in return, there are m...
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Line 9, column 130, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'majorities'?
Suggestion: majorities
...o expect something in return, there are majority of the cases where there is always slef...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, still, thus, whereas, as to, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, no doubt, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 11.3162921348 221% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 53.0 33.0505617978 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => 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: 2857.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 609.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.69129720854 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96768813016 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56465332438 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 284.0 215.323595506 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466338259442 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 930.6 704.065955056 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.8358054154 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2333333333 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13333333333 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.425349470264 0.243740707755 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113716694497 0.0831039109588 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.136526852162 0.0758088955206 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260359466117 0.150359130593 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.200624902506 0.0667264976115 301% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.