> "people are naturally generous toward a small circle of precious lives (and skeptical at best of the rest of the world)" Yes, that's a paraphrase of Hirundo'

> "people are naturally generous toward a small circle of precious lives (and skeptical at best of the rest of the world)" Yes, that's a paraphrase of Hirundo's point. However, my point is that this assertion is by no means universally nor obviously a hard truth, and indeed still a large area of philosophical debate.