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> So would most people, and we wouldn’t call it altruism. Most people would call helping a relative pay their medical bills altruism. It's also the selfish an
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> So would most people, and we wouldn’t call it altruism.
Most people would call helping a relative pay their medical bills altruism. It's also the selfish and rational choice. It's both simultaneously.
- unmole 4y ago> Most people would call helping a relative pay their medical bills altruism. Altruism is the disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others. Helping your family is not altruism.
- NateEag 4y ago> Helping your family is not altruism. Not necessarily altruism. It absolutely could be. Knowing the true motives of another human is very difficult, perhaps impossible (without a predictive biological model of consciousness we can't be sure we're reading minds correctly, and it's still an open question whether such a thing can exist).