Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
Conversations with Tyler
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The Importance of Motives in Political Action
In your profile of Noam Chomsky, he seems to say that motives shouldn't matter at all for assessing political action. If you're an extreme altruist, are you too subject to manipulation by others? I think they're people with a very strong sense of duty. One thing they had in common is they really, really barely cared about what other people thought.
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