What I mean is, how do you deal with the logical conclusion that no one can ever truly be relied on and that you can always find yourself alone with no support?

Or do you disagree with this conclusion and think that some people can be relied on and that you can know that you won’t end up alone?

And if you are alone, how do you deal with the inherent human yearn for others when you know that you can never truly rely on them?

Edit: To clarify, I am talking about personal relationships and not about professional or paid help.

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Weird, because raising a child, or a child helping a parent, doesn’t really strike me as a transaction. Helping people out isn’t really transactional. None of what you described seemed as a transaction.

    • Cypher@aussie.zone
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      29 days ago

      Social transactions aren’t the same as monetary transactions. I don’t know what you expected.

      Studies on altruism are very interesting but almost no relationships are based purely on altruism from what I understand.

      From a biological or evolutionary perspective, altruism is a behaviour that decreases the fitness or genetic contribution of one individual while increasing the fitness of another.

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5456281/