"For me, greatness is putting yourself last. Helping everyone but you.
Greatness is fighting a battle others are too afraid to think on."
Even Bodhisattvas need to take care of "themselves" first to become enlightened and THEN work to save everyone else. Put on your own oxygen mask and THEN help your child. It's all the same....
You must actively help other people in this world. The "altruists" just don't want anything of value in return. Of course, this often leads to socialist beaurucrats "helping" people in the ways THEY think they need to be helped versus what the "customer" thinks since they are looking to be paid.
In line with Atlas Shrugged (which I heartily endorse except for it's atheist point of view), the free market ensures that everyone is doing what is "valuable" as defined by those who are willing to exchange something of value for it as opposed to what we think "should" be valuable.
Stephen
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