Thee or Me Part 2: Altruism & Compassion - Roundtable

This Roundtable discusses the "Thee or Me?" podcast - subtitled ‘Altruism & Compassion’. Issues discussed include: how all people are contradictory and may have within themself a 'community of selves'; how polarisation is fed by social media, how we are all prone to it and are offered incentives to be extreme; the problem of scale and the innumeracy of empathy; the salience of the negative in social media; the problem of the lack of direct accountability in social media; how the antidote to polarisation is compassion and altruism; and why it is 'reciprocal' altruism and not just altruism.