“One of [Peter Singer’s] ideas is that all suffering matters, that somebody else’s suffering is in fact also our suffering. And he doesn’t limit this view to people. As opposed to idealistic altruism, this kind of altruism is not incompatible with the findings of evolutionary psychology. But it’s kind of like saying, “Given that our minds work this way, shouldn’t we try to be as scientific and systematic about altruism as we can be?”

— Jeremy Lauer, Interview with Jeremy Lauer, Senior Economist at the World Health Organization (Jul 13, 2015).