I used to be an Ayn Rand libertarian minarchist when I was a teenager. There's a bunch of reasons I disagree with it now, but the utter failure of people's butthead behavior during the pandemic is just the latest things that you'd have to completely ignore to maintain egotistical altruism is something that can be relied on in the real world. Not really interested in a discussion about it; I've had all of them long ago and I don't think we'd have anything to budge the other person.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You seem to have an entirely separate definition of what egotistical altruism means from how most other people understand the concept. In its simplest form it's just doing good unto others so they can live more productive better lives as more of their needs are met by community support.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

Ok, that definition does not define how people acted during the pandemic either. Some people were even actively harming others.