Assertion: altruism's benefit | /r/CapableOf | exceed its cost
Facets:
value: to the individual
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: If the “social benefit” of a program is said to equal or exceed its cost, the program is presumably justified because the undertaking of it would cause “social welfare” to increase.
text: In other words, genes for altruism could evolve if the benefit (B) of an action exceeded the cost (C) to the individual once relatedness (r) was taken into account.