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A review by lexmcgnns
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar
4.0
a very interesting little book and a lovely little self-evaluation on us as people!! I learnt so much about mankind as individuals: survivalism vs nurture, the varying lengths of humankind's altruism, what we consider duty and why others feel it more and why do we all hold ourselves to different moral and ethical standards.
We are all, at the end of the day, different, and the real person accounts — or rather, the chaptered snapshots into the various do-gooders' lives (enjoyably written btw!!! and gave a rather novella feel to what is essentially a scientific and analysing book), gave us a fully-formed look at how some people simply feel a stronger sense of needing to help or making a change — whether it be with admiration at their willingness to aid above all else, or unease at which a life lacking in base-pleasures may not be all that appealing to live.
We are all, at the end of the day, different, and the real person accounts — or rather, the chaptered snapshots into the various do-gooders' lives (enjoyably written btw!!! and gave a rather novella feel to what is essentially a scientific and analysing book), gave us a fully-formed look at how some people simply feel a stronger sense of needing to help or making a change — whether it be with admiration at their willingness to aid above all else, or unease at which a life lacking in base-pleasures may not be all that appealing to live.