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I believe that there is no such thing as a truly selfless act. CMV

I think that a truly selfless act does not exist. There isn't a person who does something in which he does not have a personal gain. Even a "truly selfless act" like that of charity is to make you feel good about yourself. You may say that soldiers giving their lives to save the country is truly selfless, but then they know that they would gain a name in the history for themselves. Also, it's not just in case of dramatic acts as these, even simple tasks like giving the directions to a tourist are done for self-satisfaction that you have helped someone. So correct me if I am wrong but I think that there is no such thing as a truly selfless act.
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The problem with your argument is that your definition is so narrow that it's impossible to even imagine a scenario where a selfless act is possible.

For example, let's say two people are hiking in the woods and person 1 sacrifices himself to save person 2 despite person 1 having the better chance of survival. This seems like a very selfless act, but you might argue that now person 2 will spread the word and person 1 will have died in order to be remembered.

Or imagine a father sacrificing himself to save his daughter. You might argue that the fathers realt motivation was preservation of his genes and lineage therefore nullifying his selfless act.

Here's the basic problem. In order for an act to be selfless there must be a recipient of some sort, but since there is a recipient you can always argue that the action was done for recognition. Therefore logically it's impossible for any action to be selfless.

You can tell that your argument is just semantics because you can't actually think of any example where an action is selfless under your definition. So you're no longer arguing that people are never selfless, you're just arguing that selfless actions are impossible. This would be much more convincing if you could think of a selfless act and then show that no one would ever take that action. Otherwise you're just changing definitions to meet your argument.