Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.
Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
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One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Kevin convinced us that his motivation was one of pure altruism and that it was important to him to help a stranger in this way.