Please read pages 283-301 from Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar to consider the following questions:
Stephanie Wykstra took it upon herself to convert fellow students at the boarding school she attended. Missionizing or evangelizing is a formal feature of some forms of Christianity; for example all Mormon young men are expected to do this for about 2 years. What do you identify as an unexpected outcome of missionizing or evangelizing for the person who is doing this? How did this experience change Stephanie’s commitment to her faith?
How did Stephanie’s embrace of herself as good enough change her relationship to utilitarianism?
What is the older form of duty that MacFarquhar is referring to? Do you think MacFarquhar describes correctly the relationship of this older form of duty to familial duty?
What does changing the world mean to you, and does your view match MacFarquhar’s argument about what people mean when they talk about changing the world?