Are martyrs actually selfish auto-addicts?

[kristina]

So what if we feel good when something we do for others is of benefit to them? Is it wrong to have a "win-win" situation? Helping one helps all. What or where's the problem? Are there people that are disingenuous in service and primarily seek the favor of others, by putting on a show for others to see? Yes.

I absolutely agree in this comment that you gave and those above that you made. I want to consider that what is possibly being done is confusing concepts with thoughtless acts (acts without wisdom) of extreme love. Like, I would rather die than to watch a child go hungry and empty out my cabinets to save it's life while I don't eat or eat little. My reasoning may be something like this....I have lived and seen much but this little one has not experienced not one iota of life. I'll do what it takes so that it may experience it's life. Even if I die. That was an example. Maybe you get a dopamine hit but eventually you won't as you die. lol. Then we have the atrocities commited by a "church" but not all of it's members. It seems the members a victims in many cases until they awaken in the real truth or they may not.
Dopamine hits and evil churches are concepts left to the experiencer to judge whether they like the concept or reject it. Our brains are wired as they are wired. If someone were a STS 100% they enjoy, I mean ENJOY, watching others suffer and they too would get the same dopamine hit. So now we are down to matters of the heart. Or desires and will.
Jesus, Ghandi, Mother Teresa and others are humans like was pointed out in previous answers and have distortions which means they are imperfect just as us. I think motives was covered as to why those give without thinking or utilizing wisdom like a knee jerk reaction and why others apply wisdom. I think it comes down to desire and will.