The Samaritan Paradox Revisited: The Karma Ran Over the Dogma

Scientists have long puzzled why in a so-called "survival of the fittest Darwinian world" perfect strangers "paradoxically" volunteer to help others even when such aid may come at some cost to themselves.



Scientists and philosophers from the fifth century to the present day (e.g., Augustine of Hippo, Michal de Montaigne, Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Dawkins to name a few) have contended that humankind's goodness is just a veneer over a morality that is rotten and self-serving at its core...