The Zebrafish GenomeWiki is a 'wiki'-based resource, which aims to provide an altruistic shared environment for collective annotation of the zebrafish genes.
And the majority, despite having genuinely altruistic impulses, engage in collective thought suppression, and the concern for children suffering in "remote places" is lost in the incessant pace and priorities of daily life.
All in all, it's enough to support the basic contention that civic life -- that realm of collective and often altruistic endeavor that belongs neither to the market nor to the state -- is indeed weaker now, and even to justify a certain nostalgia for the 1950's.
Helping young adults succeed isn't simply altruistic -- it's essential to our collective wellbeing.
Of course, altruistic individuals may also play a part in collective action.
For the folks at San Francisco's Sweetleaf Collective, motivations couldn't be more altruistic.
First, if altruistic punishment has played a key role in the evolution of collective action through cultural group selection, punishment of defecting group members should be more prevalent in between-group competitive settings.
The trade-off between individual and collective benefit has often been conceptualized within psychological models of altruistic behavior such as Schwartz's norm-activation model (NAM) (Schwartz, [1977]; Schwartz and Howard, [1980]).
As an industry, we need to use our collective talent to empower the brands we work with and give back to altruistic efforts.
When you vote, you are taking your personal time and effort to advance the collective good, without any guarantee of personal reward the very heart of what it means to be altruistic.
Finally, specifically from a utilitarian standpoint, why honor the requirement on occasions when it seems to set back collective health, for example, when we cannot develop a new drug that would help many, because no one is altruistic enough to consent to being a test subject?
