Quote Originally Posted by Wheeze View Post
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.
Just got in after a 4mile run and the gloves are on!

Abuse and Altruism are corollaries.One cannot exist without the other.The term Altruism was originated by the philosopher Auguste Comte, and it means,OTHER.

Don't mistaken Altruism with kindness and generosity.Altruism states that a Man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is his only moral justification.

Selfishness means 'concerned with ones own interests.' Most people equate Selfishness with hedonism.But, just because you want something doesn't mean it's in your interests.A Man has to discover what values are actually to his interests.

I'm not saying(as is perfectly clear from my responses)that it's wrong to help someone if you want to(although it might be in certain situations i.e foreign policy).

I'm saying that it's wrong to be forced if one doesn't want to help.

I didn't invent the term Fat-Cats, I personally don't like it.The truth is though, that people use it to refer to managers and business Men.

All your other points I've already answered in previous responses.