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When Representative Bill Thomas tells Capitol Gang pundits that Republican apostate Michael Forbes, D-N.Y., switched parties just to get media attention, Mark Shields says, "Let's not pretend that altruism is an operative principle in politics all of a sudden, Bill.
1: Genes are smart . People often assume that kin-selected altruism is foolproof; that a gene can magically sense copies of itself in other organisms--or, at least, can somehow ascertain with perfect accuracy which organisms are close relatives of its own host organism and thus may carry copies of itself.
These ‘difficult problems’ are ageing, altruism, human consciousness, complex adaptations, and the origin of living cells.
Multiple efforts to educate the population at large on the societal benefits of organ donation are underway but the impetus to donate remains one based largely on altruism.
That's the difference between ordinary altruism, where you care about other people's happiness (though perhaps not as urgently as you care about your own), and what I'll call "imperfect altruism," where you reserve the right to care about how others achieve their happiness.