... blood is thicker then virtually anything, as it very well should be. The problem one encounters is that there are a select group of philanthropic selfless individuals out there who do place the benefits and interests of complete strangers or non-family members before even the benefit of themselves. It would be ... noble decision to risk their life to save the life of their sister. They do not care about the future of their genes; they simply love their sister so much and desire her to continue her life so enormously, that they are willing to end their own life in order to ... for the id...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... all-powerful and predestining, but the will is free, and the one who believes and hopes in God must act as though for himself, but act out of a completely disinterested, selfless love. Nowhere does Augustine suggest that any of this is easy. The Christian is clearly aware of the trials of earthly existence and feels strongly the dilemmas of living as an ... isolated individual subject to a commandment that requires him to think himself part of a completely selfless and loving community. The damned can live in the world as they see it, but the blessed are doomed to live, for the time bei...

• Word Count: 2720
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• Grade Level: High School