Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
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The Resistance to Altruism
An extreme altruist as a group, if you have to classify them mentally, are they levers or stairs? Huh. Well, I think they're probably levers because most of the people I talked to want to help humans generally. But in the people that I spoke to, they were not particularly attached to helping their own community. They wanted to help people in general. And often, that meant either going somewhere else themselves or at the very least sending their money far away.
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