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Instinct
George O. Smith
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You can keep a good man down, if you've got enough head start, are alert and persistent... so long as he limits himself to acting like a good man.
You can keep a good man down, if you've got enough head start, are alert and persistent... so long as he limits himself to acting like a good man.
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Huvane shook his head. "And leave the problem for our children to solve?"
"They'll have one to solve, I think," said Chelan. "In another twenty thousand years the Terrans will be right back doing business at the same old stand. Unless we can solve it for once and for all right now."
Huvane looked around as if he were seeking another door to the chief's office. "How?" he asked sarcastically. "The first time we greeted them and they took both our welcome and us for everything they could before we pulled the rug out from under them. The second time we boxed them off and they broke out after converting the isolation screen into an offensive weapon. The third time . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Elvis Costello once posed the question what's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding. After reading The Compassionate Instinct I can't help but wonder why isn't there more peace love and understanding
I feel very lucky to be exposed to the ideas I found in this book. It's nothing less than a scientific examination of altruism, heroism and human virtue. None of the ideas are new –– if you've read The Lord of the Rings, you know them by heart already –– but what is new is the authors' exacting sear
I’m curious how much more research they’ve been able to pull together since this anthology was put together.
I found this book to be…okay-ish? It didn’t need to be as long as it was at all, and it also didn’t go into research as much I really wanted it to for the size it is. Honestly, it wasn’t that
Variable quality of essays on compassion and empathy. I really appreciated the last essay on how to teach heroism so that people are primed to do the right thing when confronted with a difficult or dangerous situation, and the risks we take when we water down the formal definition of a hero.
I just saw some of this being placed in here, without much merit. But otherwise plenty of solid material.
This book was a heartening good insight into the psychology of human goodness.
It’s been almost exactly four years since I read this book, and while I have reviewed several books recently that I first read several years in the past, this is the first one that I have decided to review without rereading it, based solely on my memory of it. Specifically, I wanted to comment on an