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[–] unreachable@lemmy.my.id 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

there's no such thing as true altruism

[–] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but there's such thing as a class war.

[–] pozbo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be careful, nihilism is an open gateway to narcissism.

[–] Deuces@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is why you have to make sure your depression is stronger than your nihilism. Your "I don't matter" needs to be bigger than your "nothing else matters". Subscribe for more useful tips!

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

Not as long as you acknowledge that you also don't matter

[–] orphiebaby@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. People say that because they don't know what it feels like. Basically, they're projecting

  2. Technically one can argue fairly that it doesn't exist, but that argument would be about semantics. Doing something good for others at the expense of yourself either because it feels good to do, or because somewhere in your brain you think there will be good karma or a celestial reward, well... maybe those aren't truly "altruism", but can anybody tell the goddamned difference in the grand scheme of things?