Many go a step beyond alleging mere bias to accuse The Times of operating from a conscious agenda to help one candidate and destroy the other.
But some animals such as dolphins, elephants and in particular the primate family, are capable of forming social bonds to a far stronger extent and actually make conscious decisions to help members of their group with whom they feel a greater affinity.
Where human behaviour is concerned, the distinction between biological altruism, defined in terms of fitness consequences, and 'real' altruism, defined in terms of the agent's conscious intentions to help others, does make sense.
If by 'real' altruism we mean altruism done with the conscious intention to help, then the vast majority of living creatures are not capable of 'real' altruism nor therefore of 'real' selfishness either.
CEO Laura Roberts, who uses the principles of Conscious Capitalism to help business leaders think more broadly, praised the librarians.
They made a conscious effort to help you through your time of crisis; it's up to you to let them know how much you appreciate it.
Her vision is to empower women, to be a leader in conscious fashion, to help Balinese street children go to school and to encourage women to celebrate themselves and their bodies.
At the time the 14th Amendment was adopted, and shortly thereafter, the federal government had in place race-conscious programs to help newly freed slaves and other people of African descent.
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"We found almost no examples of heroes whose first impulse was for self-preservation but who overcame that impulse with a conscious, rational decision to help".
