On friendship and sacrifice
Published in
Mar 13, 2021
The debate about friendship is really a variant of the debate about what sacrifices might be worth making for Communism. In both cases, you have to weigh abstract values against what is personal, individual and immediate. You have to decide what matters most: the person in front of you now, or the effects your choices might have on an undefined population of future people. Each of our thinkers resolved this conundrum differently — and sometimes the same person reached different conclusions at different times.
— Sarah Bakewell, in "At the Existentialist Café".
