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Re: March against crime - Joan Torr's Army Against Crime

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From: Kym HORSELL
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:00

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trevorREMOVE@THISiinet.net.au (Trevor Calder) writes:
>Granted the gift of wisdom Kym HORSELL tried to impress us by writing the 
>following:

>>Since you may not be 1/2-way through the A's yet (anarchy) -- it's
>>possible you haven't reached "altruism" yet. 
>>
>>You know -- the kind of thing SES workers, fire-fighters, life guards,
>>ambulance attendants, etc do.

>Possibly do.
>Unless you can *prove* they receive *no benefit at all* from their 
>activities?


I don't think "no benefit" is really related. It has to do with
"commensurate benefit".

Running into a burning building to pull out someone else's child is usually
seen as "self sacrificing", regardless of whether that person
gets (say) $4 an hour for their trouble or not.

For clarity, compare this with running into a burning building that 
contains a child and a safe with $1 mn in it, and returning with the safe.
--
R. Kym Horsell
KHorsell@EE.LaTrobe.EDU.AU                  Kym@CS.Binghamton.EDU 
http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~khorsell      http://cs.binghamton.edu/~kym

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From: kym@cs.mu.oz.au (Kym HORSELL)
Subject: Re: March against crime - Joan Torr's Army Against Crime
Date: 1999/11/15
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