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.
In a lifetime, we come across many people who help us in many ways - sometimes we get help from whom we know and some other times, from whom we don't know. One could get perplexed trying to figure out if it was an altruistic help or there was a self-interest behind it. The claim presented above is that no help is done selflessly and there is a self-interest behind every such act. However, I disagree with the claim and the reason presented for the following reasons.
Firstly, I don't see any self-interest in the help that I get from my parents, acquaints and my childhood friends. In fact, this would be applicable to everyone around me. Since our childhood, our parents just do things for us - right from changing diapers, feeding food to helping us get ready for the school and being beside in every walk of life as long as they are alive. Similarly, children equally repay or I would rather say, even more by helping their parents in every possible way they can wihtout expecting anything even in their wildest dreams, in return. This is because of the affection we have towards each other. Similarly, even our acquaints and childhood friends help us without any "Terms and Condition Apply" tag to it. It is just so natural to feel that when our beloved ones are in a quagmire, we ourselves are also in it together. And one need not be a genius to figure out that we can be happy only if our beloved are out of this distraught. The help is so selfless and authentic that we even don't give it a thought to decipher if there is any selfish motive behind the act.
Secondly, as homo sapians, we have empathy ingrained in our psychology. It is very natural to feel sorry and volunterly come forward to help the needy not that we find some kind of benefit in doing so but out of the sheer sympathy that one would experience when they encounter such situations. To prove my point, I don't have to go anywhere but to my neighbouring state, that is, West Bengal. West Bengal was home to one of the world's most altrustic person, Mother Theresa. She was so moved by the poverty prevailing during her cotemporary period in West Bengal that she came in from a different country and dedicate her life to a place that is not obligated by the law to protect her or take care of her. She is the epitome of selfless help and the world recognised her sacrifices by honouring her with a Nobel Prize, the highest honour that a civilian can get. And to point out, she was not expecting even a single penny let alone a Nobel Prize for her acts. This proves that that helping acts that one does are in fact altrustic in nature.
However, in the realms of our discussion, we cannot overlook certain scenarios where acts of help are propeled by self-interests, especially in a professional world. For instance, some people oblige themselves to help others cheerfully in that the opposite person is then obligated to help them when in need even though it is not stated explicitly. Another example is that, in the case of politics and especially with foreign policies, some countries can take advantage of other countries tribulations and arrange for a quid-qo-pro deal to fulfill their selfish motives.
Hence, it is not uncommon to encounter acts of selfless help from our parents, acquaints, childhood friends and as a matter of fact, even from strangers as is the case with Mother Theresa. I would also like to qualify my opinion in some of the cases like in professional world or politics.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, second, secondly, similarly, so, then, for instance, in fact, kind of, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 84.0 33.0505617978 254% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 58.6224719101 157% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2873.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 622.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.61897106109 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.99398916966 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61971688622 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 286.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.459807073955 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 907.2 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 6.24550561798 304% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6869416858 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.5 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9230769231 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.137858382854 0.243740707755 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0446983524558 0.0831039109588 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531057732341 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0874792595223 0.150359130593 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0521860975239 0.0667264976115 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.81 12.1639044944 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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