Why does it feel good to win ??

Lady B · Senior Member

Why does it feel good to win ??

abre les ojos · Guru

I think there is an evolutionary advantage with the pleasure principle in it. Most, if not everything that we do that givrs us pleasure is advantageous to us sex, winning, love). And most unpleasant things are bad (faeces, rotten foods etc) I think we have evolved that way to our advantage.

The fact that some other person loses too is just part of pur deviant narcissism.

Lady B · Senior Member

interesting, but would it still feel good to win at other's expense? suppose in your mind we should desire failure or losing to success or winning? Or should we be indifferent?

How then would we be motivated to do anything useful or self-sustaining? Failure and losing are easy. For any successful action in the set of possible actions, there are a whole lot of unsuccessful actions.Anyway, what do you suppose would happen to a society full of people who did not desire success over failure, or winning over losing?

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abre les ojos · Guru

Success or failure can be subjective too. What American sometimes attribute to success is deemed greed in other societies. And greed is for some reason a flaw or a vice. Bu that also is subjective therefore irrelevant.

There is also the issue of contentment which can also be deemed failure or laziness by other societies. But philosophically, isn't contentment, the highest level we should all attain, since constant competition only brings out the worst in us and creates a kind of meritocracy that disfavours those who are satisfied with little.

Whatever western capitalism makes us believe, the truth is "more" is not "better".

Lady B · Senior Member

Ok, so the comprehensive answer would be: winning generates a reward that satisfies a need within us

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abre les ojos · Guru

Precisely...