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I strongly agreed with the opinion that human beings are willing to do goodness to others. As far as I am concerned, the following factors should be in concerns.

Firstly, according to the Hamilton’s theory, if the multiplication of relatedness and cost is smaller than the cost of doing goodness, people will do, whereas if the multiplication is larger, people will not do. In another word, if it is worth doing goodness, people will choose to do. Nowadays, as the development of communicating technology sped up, the relationships between relatives are being closer and closer. Thus, once one person is in trouble, all of the person’s relatives will do him (or her) a favor. Hence more and more goodness are being done.

Secondly, the writer of the essay proposed another point that is people always want others to return. Let’s say, if student A lent an umbrella to student B who forgot to take one, in a raining day, student A will be always expecting student B could lend him an umbrella when A is in the same situation. In one word, doing goodness is trying to get the chances people do goodness back to him. That is like saving money to the bank and withdraws it when you are in financial crisis.

Thirdly, from my point of view, people doing goodness are not only expecting the benefit but also the happiness getting from the process. There are many examples of people doing goodness without letting others know who they are. For this kind of people, the most valuable benefit is the happiness. When they are helping others, what they are expecting is only a smile, for example. Nowadays, doing goodness itself is easily being seen. As the spiritual level of human beings is getting higher and higher, people are getting more and more willing to help others. From that, a surge of unspeakable happiness will overwhelm. This kind of feeling is hard to describe bus it is still objective. Hence more and more people are looking forwards to obtained more mentally enjoys from doing goodness. This led to the increases of numbers of people doing goodness.

All above, people like doing goodness. No matter what they are looking for, the trend should be maintained. The development of this trend will contribute to social harmony as well as deepen the harmony between relatives, acquaintance even strangers.