(September 26, 2014 at 8:32 am)bennyboy Wrote: In my opinion, altruism is more sane than self-preservation, even though it is probably also an evolved emotional mechanism. It shows that despite one's evolved feelings of self-importance, one is aware on some level that one really ain't all that.
Self-importance is different that self-preservation. Being that we are social creatures, altruism falls under self-preservation, or self-preservation falls under altruism, it depends on how you look at it, I guess.
