Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
Conversations with Tyler
The Pathogenesis of Altruism
A lot of psychological and psychiatric articles about altruism have pathologized it, he says. He argues that just because your altruistic tendencies may not be free in the sense of freely chosen doesn't mean they are wrong. "I think... I wrote about people I 100% wholeheartedly admired"
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