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I haven't read the article yet, but what is this title? I thought that one of the characteristics of altruism is that it's not attractive. Definition of altrui
by reportgunner 7y ago
I haven't read the article yet, but what is this title?
I thought that one of the characteristics of altruism is that it's not attractive.
Definition of altruism:
>unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others charitable acts motivated purely by altruism
>behavior by an animal that is not beneficial to or may be harmful to itself but that benefits others of its species
edit after skimming the article: Perhaps they meant to say "Altruists are not always attractive"
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- kazinator 7y agoI feel you're splitting some sort of grammatical and/or semantic hair there. Like, for instance, what is the difference between "obesity is unattractive" and "the fat are unnatractive", really. In "altruism is unattractive", it looks like there is a rhetorical device being used known as metonymy: referring to a subject indirectly by naming an attribute or adjunct of that subject in its place; it in fact means "altruists are unattractive".