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• Should Someone Receiving Government Aid Give to Charity?

  
  My Life ROI, Getting the Best Return On Life — Authority: 599
  I was having a philosophical argument with myself (completely sane, right?) about the moral righteousness of someone giving to charity while receiving government aid. This came about after reading a letter to a columnist in the New York Times Magazine. The letter goes on to state: I helped prepare a tax return for ...
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  Rhetoric & Rockets — Authority: 123
  Is Space Advocacy a Matter of Altruism or Self-Interest?The short answer is yes...to both.I had the pleasure of reading a paper by my friend Dr. OZMG concerning the role of altruism in particular professions--in the case of her paper, people going to school to become counselors--but the paper caused me to think about ...
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• Connected And Loving It

  
  ScentTrail Marketing — Authority: 123
  Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives by James Fowler. James Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis, MD may be my generations Watson and Crick. These social scientist have astonishing research that make me want to lose weight for the greater good. Losing weight sucks. Gaining ...
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• SOAPBOX of the week: elbow-greased responsibility

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 108
  Folks, this is a snapshot of life’s self-inflicted aggravations…step back and look at the Bigger Picture and see how daily avoidance in responsibility breeds issues larger than society can handle.  Just think about it… “Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.”     – Eric Hoffer, social ...
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• XYZ

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 127
   Taking a moment from time to time to examine and attempt to define your intentions in your writing activities produces more questions than answers, which is surely Natures way of reminding you you are still alive.  There were times when, to be sure, you were not alive, bored instead or wallowing not so much in the ...
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• Friday Morning at the Coffee Shop

  
  One Scheme of Happiness — Authority: 114
  I just cant stop taking pictures with my new camera.  I want to capture every little thing.  Like the light fixtures in my favorite morning coffee stop.  And even the oranges and grapefruits, waiting patiently to be juiced, demanded my attention. Here, have a croissant. Other than snapping ...
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• A New Face: Officer Kimberly Munley

  
  Philosophy On The Mesa — Authority: 124
   On a regular basis we discuss the concept of heroism—loosely defined as people stepping up to the plate and acting to help others in need, endangering their own lives—in my Intro to Values classes, evaluating the concept in light of Psychological and Ethical Egoism as well as the various forms of Altruism, ...
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• Charity Wont Contain This Secondary Market

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 764
  Each year I receive about 10 introductory economics textbooks from publishers. The purpose is to induce me to adopt the book in my 500-student principles class...
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• Ingenious Monkey 20 two 5 - Priming Toddlers to be Altruisitc

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 440
  Cool blog, and this is an even cooler post on how we can raise children who are considerate and kind. Priming Toddlers to be Altruisitc Reposted from Evolved Primate Drop a couple of pens in front of an eighteen-month-old toddler, and there is a decent chance your toddler will display a ...
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• Priming Toddlers to be Altruistic

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Drop a couple of pens in front of an eighteen-month-old toddler, and there is a decent chance your toddler will display a spontaneous act of altruism by picking them up for you. A recent experiment at the Max Planck Institute now shows that this kind of cooperative, altruistic behavior in toddlers can be increased ...
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• Give some, sweat some instead of just shedding tears!

  
  Serendipity Hopeful — Authority: 121
  What is the use of having altruism and compassion in your heart if there is no commitment and sacrifice on your part?Altruism and compassion without commitment and sacrifice as their pillars are empty kindliness/concern for others. They do others no good, they bring them no benefits or relief. They just do not help ...
  6 days ago

• Charity in a Free Society

  
  Titanic Deck Chairs — Authority: 118
  From an uncharacteristically consistent, fundamentally pro-individual rights standpoint, two authors discuss charity at the American Thinker . (I say uncharacteristically because the publication often succumbs to the classic conservative problem of ceding the premises of the left and then bickering about where the ...
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• "This fire rates more than one alarm..."

  
  Titanic Deck Chairs — Authority: 118
  Gus Van Horn discusses government corruption scandals , and hits on the much more fundamental issue of it all -- one that people must keep in mind when parsing such stories from the media: "I find that concerns about corruption too frequently and easily distract from the real problem, which is that too many Americans ...
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• SOAPBOX of the week: lose the crown, folks!

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 108
  “Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.”     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and poet Aaah, the precariously transient state between humility and pride.  None of us are excluded from being that unconditionally-loved child who’s still starving for ...
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• Ad hoc altruism

  
  Thinkers' Podium — Authority: 416
  First of all, some clarification on the way I’ll be using three terms. By ad hoc , I mean the addition of extraneous elements to a theory or justification, in order to rescue it from perceived failure in the advent of observations that challenge or outright obliterate it. By altruism, I mean the behaviour of ...
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• Your actions affect what others do. Even when those others are infants.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Western culture tends to focus on the individual and on individual rights. We assume that people have the right to do what they would like, at least as long as those actions dont interfere with others. But, what does it mean for one persons actions to affect the actions of another? Research by Henk Aarts, Peter ...
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• In praise of Mumbais finest, again .....

  
  gappa — Authority: 413
  She is a doctor and was enjoying the last few days of her leave. She decided to do some errands in Thane ( a city on the outskirts of Mumbai, almost like a suburb), that she had been putting off for sometime. Shops and offices would be nicely operational by 11 am, after the festival vacations, and she put off her ...
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• Become an Organ Donor

  
  The Personal Finance Playbook — Authority: 461
  My father died when I was sixteen years old.  It’s a topic I try to be careful about how I approach.  As a kid, people would treat me a little different if they knew that about me, for whatever reason.  Maybe because they felt sorry for me.  I knew other kids that had experienced tragedy as well, and I honestly ...
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• The Essence of the Thing

  
  Titanic Deck Chairs — Authority: 118
  Its of no special import to hear another Catholic (or any Christian) decrying the unholiness and selfishness of homosexuality. The arguments against it and gay marriage are as common as they are wrong, and dont need to be recounted here. Most of those who spew these ideas are equally unremarkable in their ...
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• Radicals for Capitalism – Reason.tv to Celebrate the Power of Ayn Rand’s Ideas

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 599
  This is something I’m looking forward to watching. On Monday, November 2 Reason.tv will debut their new series “Radicals for Capitalism: Celebrating the Enduring Power of Ayn Rand’s Ideas.” The series will feature exclusive interviews with Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, Reason Foundation founder ...
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