There's the alternative "gambit" of describing it in terms of signaling. There's the alternative "gambit" of describing it in terms of wanting to live in the best possible universe. There's the alternative "gambit" of ascribing altruism to the emotional response it invokes in the altruistic individual.
I find the quote false on its face, in addition to being an appeal to distaste.
There's the alternative "gambit" of ascribing altruism to the emotional response it invokes in the altruistic individual.
Careful, there are some tricky conceptual waters here. Strictly, anything I want to do can be ascribed to my emotional response to it, because that's how nature made us pursue goals. "They did it because of the emotional response it invoked" is roughly analogous to "They did it because their brain made them do it."
The cynical claim would be that if people could get the emotional high without the altruisti...
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