Why do-gooders sometimes make us uncomfortable
Author Larissa MacFarquhar defends the do-gooder in her new book "Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help."
What's the difference between 'doing good' and being a do-gooder? And why is it that do-gooders tend to make people so uncomfortable?
Author Larissa MacFarquhar investigates this skepticism in her new book "Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help." Brent talks to her about the motives of do-gooders and one family's controversial decision to adopt twenty children.