Word: altruism
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...mail from the Harvard Objectivist Club, inviting everyone “disillusioned with today’s intellectual and political climate” to a meeting discussing why “being selfish is not wrong.” I’ve never understood why the objectivists believed altruism irrational and dishonest, and I was particularly irritated to see such nonsense in my inbox. Yet their views are but symptoms of a much larger problem here at the College...
...might want to examine some of Harvard’s community service opportunities. There, you’ll find all the raw ambition that you could ever desire, along with enough resumé opportunities to make your head spin. Don’t be fooled by the apparent sappy altruism of your fellow volunteers—they won’t seem so harmless when they snatch up your job at Citigroup. If you happen to enjoy improving the lives of others, that’s great, but never lose sight of the bottom line that if you haven?...
...even without government support, Asia's rich are increasingly learning to savor the pyschic luxury of altruism. "If you don't want to buy airplanes or diamonds, what are you going to do with your wealth?" asks Nilekani. "For me, when I see new schools we helped start, or I see kids eating up the books we've published, it's just a continuous moment of feeling good...
...organized--is electrifyingly realized. In a movie age dominated by fictional disasters, it is wonderful to see Hollywood technology mobilized to make a worthwhile point, which is, finally, a very simple one: that under the impress of unimaginable chaos, human beings are capable of simple yet astonishing courage and altruism. Even in the place where a movie like this could go soft--in showing the lives of the trapped men's families--it maintains its unadorned simplicity. The waiting of the wives (Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal) mirrors that of their imperiled men, and it is full of impotent anger...
...Nothing stifles altruism more than the threat of losing your house and life-savings; even just having to deal with a suit is enough to stop most docs from giving free care. What is the downside of this? We lose the ability to sue doctors, nurses and hospitals doing charity work. The upside? We release a huge wave of volunteerism among docs and we make medical care more efficient and less expensive. Does it really make sense that docs and nurses who give their time and skill taking care of poor people for free actually have some desire to experiment...