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Altruism is the virtue that allows you to help the others in various ways but it has the same problems of love, peace, solidarity, honesty and all the virtues that would make better our world; it's too scarcely diffused among people and our leaders, in all the world.
Just for this, altruism is a myth; you can help people because poor, ill or old; because persecuted for their ideas or race but too little people really give their help without expecting a reward in exchange.

If you give a beggar along the street half an Euro or Dollar, you're not altruist; instead, if you talk with that beggar about his problems and provide him, for ex., some clean clothes, an old coat you don't wear anymore against the cold and the addresses of the main charity volunteer associations that can offer him a shelter for the night, medical care and even help him to find a new job; if you make this with other beggars living in your zone for the whole year, not only when Christmas is coming, then, you're altruist, in my opinion.
The more you dedicate part of your life to help needy people and/or also endangered animals, the more you're altruist but, also, the less persons like you are numerous, in the world, where the problems of poverty, outcasting, violence and persecutions are really tragic and rooted.
Just for this, altruism is a myth, the exception that confirms the rule of "thinking to our own businesses" or "mors tua, vita mea" ("your death, my life").

Many rich and middle-class persons could help much more poor people but they don't make it and, on the contrary, they exploit them and have a somewhat direct or indirect responsibility in their misery.
At most, they give only symbolic aids to clean their conscience and show the others how generous they are; so, a good part of the so-called altruism, in the reality, is rotten by hipocrisy and exhibitionism.
Then, many people waste their money without any shame or invest enormous sums of money in the great casinos of stock exchanges, while millions of people are starving.
When you consider all these situations, you can wonder what is the reality of our world, that of whom creates misery and violence or that of altruist persons who help the poors; I think the answer is difficult but it tends to pessimism, also in our civilized and technological world.

Science, technology, medicines could resolve most problems of mankind but are only in the hands of the richest Countries, protected by patents and industrial secrets.
They are a privilege, used

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