' Life is cruel, and unnecessary , by our own definition of same '

Hi hfordney, Would that your belief in your words would make them true. They are unfortunately a list of unsubstantiated lies .Here is a definition of altruism:altruism: disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.With this you mention, Germany accepting Syrian Refugees, America having a foreign Aid policy for natural disasters and international institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF. These are not examples of altruism by the above defiinition of same.https://en.wikipedia.org...Net official development assistance by country as a percentage of gross national income in 2015United States – 0.17%Russia – 0.06%Sweden – 1.40%http://www.ibtimes.com...A Swedish nonprofit says five countries were responsible for nearly three-fourths of all major weapons sales from 2011 to 2015, with the U.S. and Russia growing their share of that pie to nearly 60 percent.Altruism my backside, you judge a human objectively by their actions and not their aspirations. We have a long and thriving history of self interest and we shall continue on this path towards an enevitablily of some sort. How many Catholics watch Breaking Bad, Fargo, Homeland, how many Muslims Google western porn? How many pet owners think that they are doing the right thing? I can tell you for nothing that all other life forms loathe us and fear us with good reason. Surely a dog possesses more of your peculiar 'altruism' for its pack members than most humans have for each other. We are all being nice to each other on the ecological 'Credit Card' and when that runs out it will be back to Mad Max, don't kid yourself otherwise.You say that we have brought evolutionary progression to a new level. Nope!We love our family as all mammals do, ie chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins etc.We love our neighbours because it is expedient to do so.We participate in economic and cultural movements because that is how we protect ourselves in a global world.We throw crumbs to the unfortunate because they upset the status quo.Why. in 2016, can a person eat caviar in Monte Carlo while a child in Ghana drinks water out of a muddy hole. This was understandable in the past but in todays world with instant access to these situations these anomalies blow your altruism, out of the window. You say that we stole Negro people from Africa and then we gave them a vote. You say that Germany burned 6 million Jews (70 yrs ago) and that it has now accepted 300.000 +Syrians many of whom are needed within its economy. What a U turn for a country in such a short space of time.It is both easy and self defeating to be over-cynical and that is why I would prefer to be objective.The best indicator of human health and mental well being is 'the totality of the things we do' ie our popular culture. Look at our shopping practices, the variety that we demand, the packaging that we demand, the electronics of our households, the medication in our wine racks and in our cabinets. Check how many people drive into our busy cities (alone in their cars) Check how much pollution occours at traffic lights. Check our populations surges, check our poverty levels, check our violence levels. This is more 'Grand Torino' than 'Last of the Summer Wine'. Most of the world live in filth and dirt that cannot be replicated in the Jungle of our ancestors. Our morality is a singular 'non-altruistic' form of BS. It is non inclusive of all other species of life, be they animals or plants. We have the guile of a despot when we deal with things that we are in control of. It is BS because that is how it works itself out. We may be able to make fancy words and sing lullabies to ease our disease but that shows nothing except our folly.You said something interesting in your submission, hfordney, ' Life is changing. Life is not only aware of itself, but is beginning to care for itself.' Life is not beginning to care for itself. Are you aware that at the Bay of Pigs (Cuban Crisis) the great white hope Kennedy was prepared to start an atomic/nuclear war just to save face. Do you know that American logic made it make sense to destroy all the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These precedents of human moralistic logic make it a certainty that we will engage with each other in the future. I would much prefer a Cosmic Catastrophe as a method of vermin extermination. I love the Biblical stuff, ie Sodom and Gomorrah, how little goodness in the world would you accept before you would suggest that it be spared. That is what we are at here. We are 'clutching at straws' IMHO We are what we are, ie a cunning primate and our ability to self-delude ourselves counts for nothing in my book. Is patriotism a form of altruism, is religous conviction a form of altruism?. What is not 'altruism' within the machinations of human cunning. We are totally unrepentant, of our human past and totally non-cognizant of our apish ineptitude, which refuses to leave us. We are in truth ......'capable of anything' and I mean that toward the bad. We want to replictate a sheep , we want to make new plants, we have already made new animals and we want to colonize space. Yeah, sure we will!