The Cancer of Altruism

One of the arguments people use for altruism is that respectable scientific research has shown that those  who practice it have better self esteem,are happier and healthier.From this the inference is that such a benign activity with such beneficial outcomes for both the practitioner and the recipient of altruism should be implemented by governments in the form of taxation and redistribution of wealth to provide social care and support for those in need.

 This argument musters other research that shows that people with vast wealth are not even happy and therefor to remove some of the material things that lead to unhappiness amongst the wealthy would actually benefit them as well.Leaving aside the arrant sophistry and amorality of such an argument those posing it find themselves hoist on an internal contradiction and it is this: if being altruistic makes people feel good about themselves and provides them with moral uplift then they are obviously not practicing altruism since by definition altruism is the sacrificing of the self to others and this by its very nature cannot but be painful,unpleasant,incurring loss and suffering to the person who has sacrificed their well being to others.If it makes them feel good about themselves it is contrary to the very spirit and essence of altruism and is thus clearly not altruism as there is a selfish motive behind it namely to make the doer of good deeds feel good about themselves.

As altruism is clearly impossible to practice without complete anhiliation of the self it is obvious what the motive of those who argue for it is, namely, nihilism,the destruction of all values,the dehumanisation of man,the enslavement of all to all in an infinite spiral  of self immolation and death.