English example sentences with "altruism"

I detest Ayn Rand. She rejected altruism, but in her last years, she was on social security and medicare. What a colossal idiot!

Some have characterized altruism as selfishness on behalf of others.

I admire Tom's altruism.

Where does selflessness end and pathological altruism begin?

There's no explanation for the evolution of altruism that doesn't involve kinship.

Psychologist Dacher Keltner says recent studies of the brain and nervous system show a biological basis for compassion and altruism.

I don't think Tom's altruism is sincere.

"Effective altruism" is an insane philosophy dreamt up by techbros on amphetamines.

Honestly, I think if Mary had admitted she knew damn well what she was doing, and was understandably guilty about that, I'd have more sympathy for her. Altruism and self-sacrifice are fine to talk about, but actually being willing to give up your life for someone else—which is probably what refusing to rat people out to the bad guys would have come to, for her—is a pretty tall order. Not everyone is that brave, and being forced into a position where she had to choose between her own life and the lives of the people around her was a miserable and unfair position the villains are responsible for putting her in. She didn't do it unprompted.