“This shows why it is sometimes right and proper to sacrifice our own interests. But it doesn’t show that sacrificing our own interests to help others is the most desirable thing. The ideal is that everyone, including oneself, enjoys a good quality of life. And so the ideal is one where helping others isn’t necessary. That is not to deny that there are times when one’s own quality of life is worth sacrificing, just that it would indeed be a sacrifice. To think otherwise – that helping others lies at the core of life’s meaning – is to contradict the values that one’s altruism is committed to promoting.”
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