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 [...]
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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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