According to me everyone tries to maximize his
utility by taking a decision. I m not saying or
assuming that everyone is selfish but I m
suggesting that selflessness also has utility
attached to it and everyone has different
function fit in there mind to convert a
benefit to others(depend on who or what the the
other person or thing is) and benefit to
himself into utility n person tries to maximize
it. Some person have a wrong formulae feed in
there brains like in finance we make mistakes
in using a discount factor similarly some have
problems with this discount factor in formulae
feed in their brain that they are not able to
use appropriate discount factor for each
situation/person as they have different
priorities for each situation/person but rarely
reflect in there decisions.
Nobody is irrational even a person is willing
to lose to make others suffer is rational as he
might be looking at future gains from this
behavior or he might be driving more
satisfaction from beating others than achieving
something from himself. Taking an example
from my first class in game theory where we
played a game in which a person was given 10 Rs
and he has to offer other person sum share of
it. if other person rejects 5 Rs will be taken
back by faculty n 5 Rs will be given to other
student then other student has to make an offer
that first player can’t refuse else nothing
will be left with both of them. While
discussing the behavior of players based on
this game prof name a person phycho if he is
not looking at maximizing his pay-off instead
maximizing his share of left money. Such a
behavior is termed irrational but according to
me it’s just depends on person and its
future expectation of after its behavior all
these calculation/model is inbuilt in our brain
and if you are able to come-up with a number u
r completely rational but with different
utility function that have highly positive
weight to winning over others or one might be
thinking some benefits other than just included
in game the signaling some thing to class.
I think in india there will very high
percentage of people who will have high weight
to winning and also to a satisfaction after
revenge these two emotions will play a very
significant role in their decision making.
We are always traped in a rat race. Always
looking to winning than doing something. Its
embedded in our brains by various social and
parental values to win at any cost. It started
to be obsession. We can't enjoy absolute
benefits/satisfaction. May be there is a reason
behind all this probably we are always deprived
of resources that changed our perception that
relative achievement is always better than
absolute one. Beware we are humans not animals we can understand all this shit so stop getting
pleasure in others misery be human.
