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

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Impossibility of Asking People to Act Against Their Own Self Interest

In the book, you quote Garrett Hardon and his cardinal rule: Never ask a person to act against his own self interest. Do you still believe that? I don't think I believe that then. You've created me the passage, but if you like, prefer the passage. It was probably my fault for not making it clearer in the moment,. But Peter thought that I believed that he wrote in the book that we should not ask people to act against their own self interests.

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