[lbo-talk] Altruism

[Chuck Grimes]

> For example, to see altruism as involving sacrifice only makes sense if 
> you take the division between self and other as absolute. I have never 
> experienced it as such. With most people, especially the ones I care 
> about, it feels more like a continuum, and it actually makes me happy to 
> do things for them, with them, etc... It doesn't feel like their gain and 
> my loss; it feels like an overall gain.
>
> Joanna

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Yes, well said. I want to add that somehow this debate is missing some core
realization about socialization and peers sticking together. Teenagers v. 
Grown-ups and that sort of thing. They are forming their own cohort and 
changing their relations with each other and their older parents and 
relatives depending on how the society is changing along with external 
pressures

CG