Let’s consider the ethics involved in giving someone a life-extending organ – and then demanding for it to be returned: a US man divorcing his wife is demanding that she returns the kidney he donated to her, or pay him $1.5m in compensation. (BBC) Apparently, the two married in 1990 and he donated a kidney to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘altruism’
For goodness sake, reciprocate?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: altruism, altruistic, Complexity of Cooperation, Confucius, Court-flick, defection vs. Cooperation, deontic, deontic reasoning, deontological ethics, evolutionary behavioural impulses, Evolutionary Psychology, generosity, iterative game, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, Liberality, Matthew, Meanness, miserliness, Niccolo Machiavelli, Prisoner’s Dilemma, reciprocity, reciprocity-dependant deed, Robert Axelrod, the Analects, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Prince, thriftiness
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Can I have it on paper, Santa?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, TheoriesTags: altruism, American Pulse Survey, French anthropology, gift giving, Marcel Mauss
Should he heed the latest American Pulse Survey, Santa could save himself the yearly herniative trek around the world, his famous red carry sack could be replaced by a laptop or smart phone.