The World Motivation
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
“Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.”
— Paul Bloom · Concern
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.
When I'm in a ring, I'm there to hurt you. That's the objective in a fight. Your wellbeing is not my concern.
When you hear that you're going to be working with a first-time director, sometimes that can be a concern to people.
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.