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Copyright © 2015 by Larissa MacFarquhar
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ISBN 978-0-698-19560-8
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
FOR DO-GOODERS, IT IS ALWAYS WARTIME
THE BODIES OF STRANGERS
THE MOST OPPRESSED OF ALL
DUTY! THOU SUBLIME AND MIGHTY NAME THAT DOST EMBRACE NOTHING CHARMING OR INSINUATING, BUT REQUIREST SUBMISSION
AT ONCE RATIONAL AND ARDENT
AN ACCIDENTAL CAPABILITY PRODUCED, IN ITS BOUNDLESS STUPIDITY, BY A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS THAT IS NORMALLY OPPOSED TO THE EXPRESSION OF SUCH A CAPABILITY
THE UNDERMINING OF DO-GOODERS, PART ONE
THE HUMILIATION OF STRANGERS
THE LEGACY OF DRUNKS
THE UNDERMINING OF DO-GOODERS, PART TWO
ONE OF THOSE GOD THINGS
KIDNEYS
PLEASE REPLY TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
THE CHILDREN OF STRANGERS
THE ASPIDISTRA IS THE TREE OF LIFE
THE UNDERMINING OF DO-GOODERS, PART THREE
FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE
SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT FROM LIFE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOR MY PARENTS
What are we? What is our life? Our goodness? Our righteousness?
—THE ASHAMNU, the Jewish shorter confession
A young man and an older man—a philosophy professor and his student—are having lunch together in a Thai restaurant in New Jersey.
YOUNG MAN: I’m not sure what the world would be like if everyone thought like me. In college we were given the thought experiment, Should you save your mother from drowning, or two strangers? I think I should save the strangers, but I would probably be too weak to, because I love my mom. And maybe it’s good to have this disposition where you love your mom. I don’t know what the world would be like if everyone saved the strangers rather than their mother. When I read books on Buddhism, and monks are talking about problems like this, they don’t think of it as caring less for your mother—they think about it as caring about strangers more. And if you care about the strangers and your mother equally, it’s just a numbers game at that point. But it’s not a cold and calculating thing, it’s extending empathy to ............

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