Peter Singer Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?

  Peter Singer

  Struggle, Survival, Cost

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.5, Princeton University Press

• There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

  Peter Singer

  Struggle, Indulge In, Luxury

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.119, Princeton University Press

• There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors would have been unlikely to survive, reproduce, and give their own offspring a chance of doing the same. Now conditions have changed and for most of us, surviving and reproducing isn't such a struggle but we still carry the genes of our ancestors and they influence - not determine, but influence - our behavior.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Struggle, Giving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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