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A (New) Darwinian Left - Peter Singer (Live in Melbourne)

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The Role of Multi-Level Selection in Altruism

I do think that I'm trying to encourage people to be altruistic in the normal sense of the word. Once we've taken care of our basic material needs or reached a reasonable comfortable level of material well-being and security we ought to be doing a lot more for people in need, he says. He doesn't count your self-interest as you know how many now big is your house or how what kind of car do you drive but rather in do you feel good about yourself  do you think that your life is meaningful worthwhile? That's an important option that we have particularly now in societies that do provide us with a reasonable level of economic security I want him to say.

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