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Some claim that “altruistic” surrogacy, where payment is limited to “pregnancy-related expenses,” makes it ethical.

"The ability to sell or profit from human remains I think complicates the altruistic idea of donating for education," she says.

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“It wasn’t so altruistic as it may have seemed at the time.”

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They are honorable, of course, and when we meet Ghost, we discover motivations that are similarly altruistic, if a bit shallowly written.

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He was galvanized early in life by liberation theology, a logical philosophy for someone who recognizes Jesus as the altruistic, peace-loving hippie he is depicted as in the New Testament.

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