Every human action is motivated by self interest

First of all, Thank you for creating such a thought provoking - This will be interesting :) Next, My first point. You state in the 'Real interest' paragraph, that we go to school for our own well-being? This is entirely incorrect, Children/Teenagers are forced into going to school - it is law that they have to go, or their parents will be fined. It is not in self-interest to go to school, If most teenagers had the option of going to school they would definitely decline, simply because school is 'boring' or 'tedious'. But, that was a hypothetical situation - let's take real society. Teenagers are required by law to go to school (or be home schooled) Correct? 95% of them will only go to school because 1. They are forced by the government 2. They are forced by their parents, parents are fined if their child is not attending school (That's how it works in the UK , not sure about USA). So if a teenager/child is told this - it would make them think twice about skipping school, I'm pretty sure they don't want their parents in trouble or being fined. Let me repeat that... their PARENTS in trouble or fined. It is not the well-being of theirselves they are concerned about in this situation, it is the well-being of their parents they are worried about. (I realize this isn't the case for teenagers who skip school constantly, and don't pay attention to parents, relatives, government etc. - but this is only a small minority). Next, the 'beggar situation'. I think it's incredibly unfair for you to state that we only give money to homeless people, so we can feel better about ourselves, belong with society and not seem rude. The first weakness is 'To fit in with society'. Society has changed completely over the last 50 - 100 years - there is not '1 way to behave' in society. For example, years ago - it would be very offensive to insult Christianity in films / tv shows, now...it's done constantly. The same with beggars, people were usually generous and would give lots to homeless people to help them 'back on their feet' but now - we decide it ourselves. Giving a beggar money, may just be because you have spare change. It may be because someone told you to, or a number of different reasons. It won't usually be for your well-being especially if you are religious, it would be the way you have been taught to act (or learnt to act) - Religious people don't give then expect happiness or something else in return, they give because that's what they're accustomed to. My final point for this round. Let's use the example of people in the army/military. They don't join simply because they want to be loved by people and their nation, they do it to protect their country. Fighting for a country, isn't well-being or self-interest, it's about protecting or 'saving' the world from too much bloodshed and violence (Yes, I realise it's fight violence with violence, but the overall outcome is better - I mean look, Bin Laden is dead). If anyone joins the army in order to gain love and respect from several million people - that's just incredibly vain (I think that's the right choice of word) - You shouldn't be fighting in order to get love? There's 100's of other ways to gain love and respect from people, they should go find some other ways of doing it. Overall, I'll end this round with an example. Let's take the beggar again (such a good example) - Let's say I stop and give this beggar money, not like..walk past...feel guilty then run back. I would Just put money in naturally. I don't do this in order to make me feel better about myself or to fit in with society - I do it so the beggar has a better life and can afford to buy food / clothing, etc. I may feel happy afterwards if I saw the beggar get a job in the future - but this happiness is simply an after-effect of me helping the beggar. I didn't help the beggar so I would feel better, I did it because I cared about the well-being of OTHER people. I look forward to your next argument :)