NancyLebovitz comments on So you say you're an altruist... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 August 2010 06:09:54AM 13 points [-]

It seems to me that if you set the price of virtue too high, a lot of people will say "Fuck virtue, I'm not bothering at all"-- and if you aren't supposed to feel like a good person unless you give all your disposable income to charity, that's setting the price too high.

Stable religions seem to set the price of virtue (in terms of giving to charity) at 10% of income. Anyone know whether that's just the Abrahamic religions?