Quote Originally Posted by christopher leigh View Post
Guick if my wife was next to you with a broken leg, and you had two broken legs, my priority would be my wife.To say I should put you first, sums up the evil of the altruist position.

Many of Those mountaineers on Everest are just like you.People who believe that others come first.It's amazing how the flaws in ones moral code become exposed on the worlds highest mountain!
Altruism can never be evil, merely abused. The truth is that, in your scenario, the person with the one broken leg is likely to survive but the one with 2 broken legs is at risk of dying. Do the right thing. Save the life and worry about patching up the problems of the living later. Only that way will you be able to sleep at night (if you have any scrap of conscience at all!).

Please don't equate fat cats with business men. Thats as biased a few as assuming that all less well-off are scroungers! There is good and bad at both ends of the spectrum and lots in the middle too. Advocating selfishness as a first law of looking after yourself merely plays into the hands of the bad.

Agreed, the bad are doing very well living off the arrangements made for the genuinely needy but the job of society and government is to strive to minimise that without diminishing the greater good of continuing that support. It's all part of the democratic process.