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Helping others without personal gain or with personal costs is called ____. compassion altruism benevolence mercy

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I believe the answer is: Altruism

Often times, altruistic people often sacrifice their own self being in order to help other people. Many psychological experts believe that altruism is considered to be unnatural way of thinking because for most organisms on the earth, fulfilling our self-interest is the basic setting of our survival instinct.
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