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Oakley defines pathological altruism as "altruism in which attempts to promote the welfare of others instead result in unanticipated harm." A crucial qualification is that while the altruistic actor fails to anticipate the harm, "an external observer would conclude [that it] was reasonably foreseeable."

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That is a provocative charge, and one that Oakley levels more generally at the scientific establishment:

Both altruism and empathy have rightly received an extraordinary amount of research attention. This focus has permitted better characterization of these qualities and how they might have evolved. However, it has also served to reify their value without realistic consideration about when those qualities contain the potential for significant harm.

Part of the reason that pathologies of altruism have not been studied extensively or integrated into the public discourse appears to be fear that such knowledge might be used to discount the importance of altruism. Indeed, there has been a long history in science of avoiding paradigm-shifting approaches, such as Darwinian evolution and acknowledgment of the influence of biological factors on personality, arising in part from fears that such knowledge somehow would diminish human altruistic motivations. Such fears always have proven unfounded. However, these doubts have minimized scientists' ability to see the widespread, vitally important nature of pathologies of altruism. As psychologist Jonathan Haidt notes, "Morality binds and blinds."
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"Empathy," Oakley notes, "is not a uniformly positive attribute. It is associated with emotional contagion; hindsight bias; motivated reasoning; caring only for those we like or who comprise our in-group (parochial altruism); jumping to conclusions; and inappropriate feelings of guilt in noncooperators who refuse to follow orders to hurt others." It also can produce bad public policy:

Ostensibly well-meaning governmental policy promoted home ownership, a beneficial goal that stabilizes families and communities. The government-sponsored enterprises Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae allowed less-than-qualified individuals to receive housing loans and encouraged more-qualified borrowers to overextend themselves. Typical risk–reward considerations were marginalized because of implicit government support. The government used these agencies to promote social goals without acknowledging the risk or cost. When economic conditions faltered, many lost their homes or found themselves with properties worth far less than they originally had paid. Government policy then shifted . . . the cost of this "altruism" to the public, to pay off the too-big-to-fail banks then holding securitized subprime loans. . . . Altruistic intentions played a critical role in the development and unfolding of the housing bubble in the United States.
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The same is true of the higher-education bubble. As we've argued, college degrees became increasingly necessary for entry-level professional jobs as the result of a well-intentioned Supreme Court decision that restricted employers from using IQ tests because of their "disparate impact" on minorities.

Universities altruistically established admissions standards that discriminated in favor of minorities, a policy that proved pathological because underqualified minority students struggled to succeed and even qualified ones face the stigma of being assumed to be "affirmative action" beneficiaries. The institutions tried to help by setting up separate orientations, which of course only reinforced their separation from the broader student body.

And when, in 2003, the discriminatory admissions standards faced a constitutional challenge, the Supreme Court upheld them. In Grutter v. Bollinger, a five-justice majority declared that administrators' declaration of altruistic intent--"obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body"--was sufficient to meet the court's purportedly exacting standard of "strict scrutiny." It was left to Justice Anthony Kennedy, in dissent, to note the absence of "empirical evidence." The court is currently revisiting the question-- Fisher v. Texas is expected to be decided in the next few weeks--and one hopes that, if it stands by the "diversity" rationale, Kennedy will finally succeed in imposing some scientific rigor.

Pathological altruism is at the root of the liberal left's crisis of authority, which we discussed in our May 20 column. The left derives its sense of moral authority from the supposition that its intentions are altruistic and its opponents' are selfish. That sense of moral superiority makes it easy to justify immoral behavior, like slandering critics of President Obama as racist--or using the power of the Internal Revenue Service to suppress them. It seems entirely plausible that the Internal Revenue Service officials who targeted and harassed conservative groups thought they were doing their patriotic duty. If so, what a perfect example of pathological altruism.

Oakley concludes by noting that "during the twentieth century, tens of millions [of] individuals were killed under despotic regimes that rose to power through appeals to altruism." An understanding that altruism can produce great evil as well as good is crucial to the defense of human freedom and dignity.
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All kinds of shit set people up for failure.

Two of my grandchildren are biracial, and they'll kick your ass with performance, becuz their parents suffer no slackers or misbehavior. No excuses.

But go in any black neighborhood and the kids are out on the street after 10 oclock, and go to school (if they go) tired and unprepared. And the schools enable it because blacks are VIPs in the Democratic Heavens. The kids would be better served to sleep on cots all morning, eat lunch, and shoot some baskets till the bus comes.

Unless my son in law is a liar the communist bloc didn't tolerate slacking at all. If you didn't wanna perform in school theyd toss your ass in to the beet field, and in to the army if you still didn't get a clue. Where the commies fuck up is trading all your toil for Mercedes for the VIPs. That's socialism, you bust your ass so Chelsea Clinton rides in a Mercedes, and you ride the bus.
 
RobDownSouth said:
This might be the stupidest non-American Thinker quote you've had this year.
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I think I am beginning to find you strangely attractive to me.


I want to break you down like a shotgun and pack you full of three-inch magnum shells, like in some prison love affair, buckets of cum ricocheting off the walls of your bowels, plumbing your depths . . .


or I'll just sit here and wait for some other stupid load of hypocrisy and assholic racism to fall like cum-drops from your pooper.


Do, please, make fun of a little Chinese Girl . . . on Father's Day . . . you retched benighted fecel fuckwit.
 
Wat_Tyler said:
I think I am beginning to find you strangely attractive to me.


I want to break you down like a shotgun and pack you full of three-inch magnum shells, like in some prison love affair, buckets of cum ricocheting off the walls of your bowels, plumbing your depths . . .


or I'll just sit here and wait for some other stupid load of hypocrisy and assholic racism to fall like cum-drops from your pooper.


Do, please, make fun of a little Chinese Girl . . . on Father's Day . . . you retched benighted fecel fuckwit.
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That is all he has.

He is a Democrat. He cannot think, he can only hate...
 
I wager . . . he drive a Focus.


Out of focus, of course.


But a Focus nonetheless.
 
Michelle is not the only one proud of her country for the first time.



Now Throb can actually bring himself to almost like his Mulattos...


;) ;)
 
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