It’s unbelievable but it is true, that every single thing that a person ever has is and will do, is either out of the belief that this will give me pleasure / this will protect me from pain; this will give me Pride / this will protect me from shame; or out of a sense of anger, which is the ego’s need to put someone down for offending it or it is out of jealousy, which is the ego’s need to put someone down for "they are erroneously better than you" – but finally and ultimately, the best two motives: is out of conviction and / or compassion