Helping Others Out On The Edges (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Larissa MacFarquhar doesn’t like the term “do-gooder,” but it’s the best she’s got for a certain type of person. Not your ordinary, well-intentioned civic-minded person who pitches in to help when needed. But those rarer people who wholly – maybe obsessively – devote themselves to a moral cause, at the expense of almost every other aspect of their lives. Think Gandhi or Mother Teresa, but not sainted. Not famous. They challenge us, they amaze us. They make us uneasy, even upset. What drives them, and our response? This hour On Point, Larissa MacFarquhar on do-gooders. - Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/10/12/helping-others-out-on-the-edges