Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

Altruism exists because its opposite exists. And opposites create eachother. Good creates bad, ugliness creates beauty, light creates darkness, chaos creates order, and vice versa, and so on and so forth. Take life for example: if everything was alive and lived forever we wouldn't regard it as life because we only know life in relation to what isn't life.

It's interesting to note that many altruists are altruistic because they realised that being selflessly good to others makes the self feel good. But does that still mean they're being altruistic? I don't suppose it matters really, it's a philosophical question that only morons like myself would ponder.