Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
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The Hostility Toward Extreme Altruists
The hostility toward extreme altruists comes from many, many sources. I think it comes from a sense that humans are fundamentally egotistical and therefore must be some kind of pathology or perversion. It also comes from so many areas of popular culture; for instance, Alonon was founded in the 50s by family members of Alcoholics. And I think this notion that trying to help people, sacrificing yourself to help people,. was a sickness, became very widespread under the better-known term codependency.
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