Annihilating Idols (volume one)

Put others ahead of yourself:
you have to have already helped yourself
before others will help you,
before you can truly help others;
to put yourself in a position
to disregard personal survival,
to be able to aid others' survival,
you had to have achieved said position
at the others expense: for me to have money
means that someone else does not have this money.
Helping others is therefore contradictory,
unless the other is paying you for your help,
which puts your survival ahead of others';
or you're helping others to help yourself,
to feel good about yourself(compared to those
who need help) or even to feel good simply
for helping, in which case, in the end,
you come first. We may never really put
others in front of ourselves outside
of self sacrifice, in which case we may still
retain hope for glory, remembrance, honor.

People will disagree and claim that we can and do put others before ourselves, but if we were to have always done this we would not have been able to do this: for ones survival one must, at some point, put oneself above an other or others until, after a point, when one is relatively secure, one can put others ahead of oneself: but why do we do this? This is what a just, moral, free society relies upon: concern for each others well being to the extent, in some cases if not most, that one cares less for oneself than for these others, even those who the one does not know: do we do this because we feel good about ourselves for this, because society requires it, or because we feel so bad about ourselves? There just may be another reason...Search that noggin little demons!