Altruism definition
Egoism refers to the act of satisfying personal instinctual needs towards achieving personal righteousness. In other words it is the care of oneself. Whilst this applies to egoistic behaviors, some individuals may perform certain acts to satisfy instinctual behaviors that fuel the caring of other individuals’ needs. Such acts may be directed to one’s own group or certain individuals. Arguably, the concepts of morality are grounded on self interests. Therefore, even though egoistic and altruistic behaviors tend to be different, I firmly believe that altruism manifested itself in egoistic characters. For instance, egoistic behaviors makes a person to show more pride while doing certain tasks. Such actions as performed by the individual may be interpreted as egoistic behaviors by others. Further, if the individual performing the acts desperately wants to achieve his or her righteousness, then he or she possesses egoistic characters. Furthermore, in the case such an individual directs his or her assistance towards other people who might have not requested the assistance, or the individual performing the actions was not requested to do so, then such a person is said to possess altruistic behaviors. In essence, a altruistic behaviors are performed to realize self actualization and the desire to show ego rather than benefiting the intended audience. In a nutshell, the manifestation of altruistic behaviors is egoism.
Additionally, when people are self centered, they do not rightly intend to provide services that are aimed at benefiting others, but rather self gain. Therefore, such actions may not be regarded an helpful but perceived satisfying ones needs. Also, individuals may want to associate with other to show of their egoism. This means that such people do not intend to provide services that necessarily benefit group members but as a purpose of self gain. For example, when a person performs services that tends to increase his utility and associated with personal privileges ,he or she is termed as egoistic rather than altruistic. Such services include giving of financial support to the poor with aim of serving the interest of the giver. This can be illustrated by a developed nation donating funds to the less fortunate in the underdeveloped countries and at the end exploit their natural resources. In other words, the nation with financial muscle gains more than the less fortunate one because its sole aim was to exploit the available resources in the poorly developed one.
In most cases, people demand morality rather than ego. However, morality itself is grounded in individuals’ self-interest. Therefore, it is difficult to differentiate between altruistic; actions; from egoistic ones. Often, people desire to help others when they do not need them and therefore end; up benefiting as individuals.
