昨天在百度上搜索浪漫主义运动的内容，被其中一句话所深深打动：“出于自利，人类变成了群居性的，但是在本能上一直依然非常孤独。”第一眼看到它，我便被它吸引住了，说得那么贴切，那么符合我的心境。 自利。真的，人就是自利的。往往，对于那些相信自利是人的本能的人来说，任何利他的行为都是为了使自己在长期获益。我不以为然。每每读到这种想法，都想吐槽一句:"as if you know what will happen in the long run." 什么是本能？本能就是我们不需要思考就会去遵循的内在特质。如果自利是人的本能，那就意味着我们的第一念就应是利己的。我们本来就是自私的，我们的本能就是在第一念想到自己。利他的行为怎么解释呢？我想，应该是利他的行为会给施与者带来一种瞬间、即时的快感和自我满足感吧。这种快感兴许会被长期带来的利益所加深。哦，不，那不是长期的利益，但只是你懵懂无知，自己想像出来的长期获益罢了。在我看来，自利并不是使自己得到的利益最大化，而是使自己感到的利益最大化。无论如何，人都是被感情所控制的。【乱入：如此看来，为何经济学要把“理智人”假设成“唯利人”呢？唯利并不是理智的产物，只不过是人本能的欲望和情感罢了。】
Author: wuzy
A Quote on Modern Science and My Random Thought
"... the behaviour of an organised system, the action of an organism, or human activity cannot be explained in terms of causal energy transmission alone... information rather than causality describes processes in, or between organised systems. The most general model of a natural process on which scientific explanation may be based is no longer the...
Thoughts on Doubting
Last morning, we were asked to share our VJC story during Civics Lesson. I ended my reflection with the following remark:"It's okay for us to have doubts about our dreams, cos if we are not doubting, we are not thinking." It sounded reasonably true, didn't it? However, to be honest, I personally doubt whether the process of doubting...
Trade-off between Equity and Efficiency
It seems that we have taken the trade-off between equity and efficiency in microeconomics for granted. Free market can achieve allocative efficiency at the expense of equity, whereas government may choose to sacrifice efficiency in exchange for equity. The trade-off between these two goals is obvious from empirical evidence; we seldom ask ourselves why this...