Are martyrs actually selfish auto-addicts?

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The problem with the OP's theory is that EVERYTHING we do that makes us feel good gives us a hit of dopamine. It's one of the ways that biology has developed to encourage survival. Eating things high in fat or sugar? Dopamine. Hugging another person? Dopamine! So since we are a tribal species, it makes sense that we get dopamine for helping the tribe.

However, we can get dopamine from doing bad things, too! Do you like to make people cry? Well, I'm sure you get a nice hit of dopamine every time you push someone over the edge. Even people who self harm do so because it gives them dopamine. Dopamine is actually there to condition us to be "addicted" to ANY behavior that seems to benefit us. I bet "bad people" get a "much stronger hit of dopamine" from doing bad things than the "average person" does, too. Anyway, again, I fail to see the point, unless you are just trying to be subversive and intentionally promote a negative use of the Law of One philosophy.

You've basically restated the point yourself more than once, so I'm actually not sure whether you have some strong bias preventing you from seeing it, or if you have your own.hidden agenda here

Martyrdom is highly topical in this forum. Is there some reason it is a taboo subject here in this forum? Is there some reason you feel obliged to defend martyrdom, despite Ra being unequivocal that it is an unwise, and opens a door to negative greeting?

I take objection to a moderator coming into a thread and publicly accusing a poster (any poster) of being subversive. You are out of bounds.

Does it give you a dopamine rush to publicly assert your "authority" in this place? Surely you are aware it would be more appropriate to engage me in PM, and yet you chose this route? Or did you choose it? Perhaps it is just a programmed reaction?

What, exactly, would be this "negative use" of LOO philosophy that you suspect I am promoting?