I don't [see anything moral about caring for others]...you give into helping or not hurting someone because you feel so superior to them that it isn't even worth it to make them suffer, that's hardly anything moral.
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A failure to help someone is not the same as actively making them suffer. If they need help when you meet them, they're already suffering. Depending on the circumstances, leaving persons to continue suffering or alleviating that suffering could be an act of altruism depending on the actors and the situation.
Helping people is, at worst, an act of enlightened self-interest. The fewer hungry, desparate, or drug-starved people there are walking the same streets as you means the less likely you are to be the victim of a crime driven by someone else's desperation.
Homeless people asleep in a shelter aren't breaking into your garage to escape the elements.
Beyond that, "help" doesn't always align with overtly bettering the circumstances of a person. It can also take the form of jailing predators for the sake of everyone involved (in some cases including the law-breakers themselves).
If the OP doesn't want to help people in need, fine; he's not generally required by law to act (and he clearly has no fucking morals so that's right out). But his idiotic rambling about how altruism is actually condescension in disguise doesn't pass the sniff test.
This one is actually pretty easy. If humans were not a social group who helped each other out in time of need, we would have died out 10s of 1000s of years ago and never have left Africa.
I wonder how the OP would have felt if he was not helped by his mother the day he was born... oh, wait, I don't.
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Edggggge.
I mean, I can't argue that you might very well find yourself in a situation where it's not worth your while to hurt someone, so you don't. That's pretty basic reasoning. But that's a far cry from saying every instance of mercy or altruism is motivated solely by apathy. There are strictly rational reasons why it can be helpful to help others.
You are a sociopath of potentially Eric Cartman levels. Sometimes people help others because it feels good to help, or because they believe it's the right thing to do, or because they empathize with the person's situation.
Then again, I doubt you understand most of that on a conceptual level, and empathy is a foreign word to you. Do at least try to pretend you're not one bad day away from a killing spree.
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