Sublime

Partiality to loved ones is justified because it is an essential ingredient in one of the highest of human goods.”

I would have you know, that if you kill such an one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me. Nothing will injure me, not Meletus nor yet Anytus—they cannot, for a bad man is not permitted to injure a better than himself.

Nature did not select for empathy and social bonds because Nature was kind—but because those were survival advantages. Completely selfish, unfeeling people don’t care for the greater good. They don’t appreciate goals beyond themselves. And that limits them.”

Eventually he came to the view that we needed to give what we had to others until the cost to ourselves outweighed the benefits to them. We needed to stop thinking of charity as a thing that was nice to do but okay not to do, and begin to think of it as our duty.

beneficiaries

Tuvia, Asael, Malbin, and those who agreed with them were able to transcend both the principle of self-preservation and their desire to save only their families and close friends. They were determined to save all Jews regardless of who they were.

My message is this: There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart. My mom still has that $100,000 salt and pepper