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| Articles about Altruism |
| Altruism's unexpected ally: selfishness | | 2008-05-01 15:55:50 | | Just as religions dwell upon the eternal battle between good and evil, angels and devils, evolutionary theorists dwell upon the eternal battle between altruistic and selfish behaviors in the Darwinian struggle for existence. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), evolutionary theorists at Binghamton University suggest that selfishness might not be such a villain after all.
read more | | By: Machines Like Us - Science and Technology News | | |
| | | War as Altruism | | 2007-07-22 20:04:54 | | I’ve been thinking a lot about war. And I’ve been think a lot about a particular justification for the war in Iraq. More precisely, I suppose, it is a justification for staying in Iraq. That justification takes several forms grouped in two primary classes.
If we leave, it will get worse.
We broke it, we bought it, we fix it.
Here is the question: Does it really make sense to justify war as a kind of altruism?
Both (closely related) positions are closely related to a concept of war as a kind of altruism, to the idea that war can be, and in the case of Iraq is being, fought for the good of the people whose country has been invaded.
The more I think about it, the less the idea makes sense. The machinery of war is the machinery of destruction. Soldiers are a body of individuals trained for destruction. The concept is one of violence. War is meant force one group of people to bend to another group’s will. It seems difficult to justify the use of such a tool as ‘al | | By: Hell's Handmaiden | | |
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| Altruism in the summer heat | | 2007-04-26 04:00:03 | | The summer heat is proving to be quite a challenge to everybody. Lately I’ve been hearing of rising cases of heat stroke, serious nose bleeds, flaring tempers in traffic jams…. And yet, at times, the human spirit manages to shine even brighter than the sweltering sun.
A few days ago, inching along the highway in 35°C heat, a car ahead of me was passing the traffic policeman, who was sweating profusely in the blistering weather. Out of the blue, a hand thrust out of the car and reached out to the policeman with a cold bottle of mineral water. I am sure everyone around him felt a lot lighter after seeing his genuinely gratifying smile.
It’s not solid infrastructure, nor is it sound economics — it’s not even good governance — that keeps society in one piece. It is these acts of altruism that somehow enables us to keep faith in our fellow man.
altruism, summer weather
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