I really like this post and it reminds of Peter Singer’s thought experiment of getting your shoes wet to save a child from drowning in a shallow pond.
The idea is that altruism is right when the gain to someone else is large and the personal sacrifice is relatively small.
So although small sacrifices for the sake of benefiting other people are often worth doing, large sacrifices that significantly decrease your wellbeing probably aren’t.
I really like this post and it reminds of Peter Singer’s thought experiment of getting your shoes wet to save a child from drowning in a shallow pond.
The idea is that altruism is right when the gain to someone else is large and the personal sacrifice is relatively small.
So although small sacrifices for the sake of benefiting other people are often worth doing, large sacrifices that significantly decrease your wellbeing probably aren’t.