LIFE BY DEFINITION CANNOT BE ALTRUISTIC...

     Does anyone really deny the assertion, "All men are created equal"? I don't. But then, by me saying that, it in no way should imply that I believe we remain equal. A simple look around should demonstrate that we have all long since diverged from our original equality either by accident of birth (sex, race, origin, wealth, etc.) or by effort (education, invention, influence, status, etc.) or by other means still and any combination thereof. So yes, while we were all created equal, it is clearly not a desirable state of being...