There is no true altruism. there is always a self motive, somewhere, otherwise it wouldn’t be done.
*** There is no true altruism. there is always a self motive, somewhere, otherwise it wouldn’t be done. ***
Would that not equate egoism to altruism? Seems cynical to me.
Not virtue signaling, but recently I was at a pharmacy, and a customer could not afford her insulin. I paid for her script. I felt compassion for her, could afford it so I did.
What would be self motive/ self interest in that?
Really? If that were true, there wouldn't be any reasons to award the Medal of Honor..
I see that you haven’t responded to my comment about altruism to you, so allow me to expand on the subject a bit:
Gary W. Martini was nineteen years old in April 1967 when his platoon ran into the prepared defenses of an NVA battalion. 14 of his fellow Marines were killed and 18 more wounded and some of those wounded were trapped in the open ground between the trench that the Marines found for cover and the enemy machine guns. Martini ran out into that massed fire to rescue a wounded Marine even though another Marine had just tried that and was killed doing it. He made it back to the trench with the wounded Marine but Martini was wounded himself in the process.
Martini went out again to get another wounded man again through that intense enemy fire. He threw grenades at the NVA machine gun teams and then successfully retrieved another wounded Marine.
At that point, the sole remaining officer told Martini to stay put and not go out again – it was too dangerous.
A Marine who was badly wounded and trapped out in the open begged for help and Martini – when he saw that the officer was looking the other way – went back into the open to get that trapped and wounded Marine and he was shot and killed this time.
So – what’s this crap about “altruism not existing"?