Discussion of the existence of altruism
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Explain altruism from your point of view. Do you believe true altruism exists? Why or why not? Give one example, from your life or someone else's, of altruistic behavior (real or perceived).
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Altruism is defined as doing something that benefits others with no goal of benefiting yourself.
Whether or not true altruism exists is pretty hard to determine. For example, a little league soccer coach could argue that he's coaching the team for the good of the children and not getting anything out of the experience himself. However, we can imagine that there may be benefits of his behaviour: maybe it's volunteer experience he can put on a job ...
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