The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor? Summary and Reviews

The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor?
by Deborah Stone

The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor?
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Author: Deborah Stone
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-30
ISBN: 1568583540
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Nation Books

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Book Review: A ethic for our time
Summary: 5 Stars

Deborah Stone's Samaritan's Dilemma is a wise book that we all need to take seriously. Extremely well-written, highly readable, it is also well-researched. While based on the best available social science, it practices what it preaches: it exercises real care for its subject matter. Stone obviously cares deeply about the topic. She not only has evidence on her side but is deeply concerned that we take some time to think about how people are motivated by more than self interest. When we do, we recognize the obvious. We all are human, we all have feelings, we all are basically afflicted by pain and cruelty, whether it is inflicted on ourselves or others. People are basically good and government is a manifestation of that. Sure government also reflects our ability to be cruel and to dominate, but it also reflects the better angels of our nature. Now, more than any time in the last 50 years, is the time for us to see this and to act accordingly. We can begin by reading this eloquent and very insightful book.

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