Quote Originally Posted by VeeDubb65 View Post
Well this is an interesting turn in the conversation.

If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons, are you still doing the right thing?

And at what point does it become the right thing to do regardless of motivation.

At one end, if we say for the sake of argument that it's wrong to open doors for people if you're doing it for selfish motivations, how far do we carry that conclusion?

If you dive into a river to save a drowning child, but all you can think about is how this will get you in the news and make everybody treat you like a hero, is that not still the right thing to do?

So, the question becomes, when does the significance of the thing, outweigh doing it for the wrong reasons?
golly I thought that was the question all along

EDIT
deleted a rather flippant answer
but have no time to provide one of quality