Extreme Altruism
In the book Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar profiles people who live according to highly demanding moral standards – and notes the hostility and dismissiveness with which others react to those stories. Perhaps many people view altruistic people's lives as a standing reproach to their own.
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PRINCETON – More than 40 years ago, in an essay entitled “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” I invited readers to imagine that they are walking past a shallow pond when they see a small child who has fallen in and seems to be drowning. You could easily rescue the child, but your expensive new shoes would be ruined. Would it be wrong to ignore the child and walk on?