[spydar]

I'm just gonna warn all of you now: I am a paranoid pessimist.

Here's why I think that altruism (the act of doing something beneficial for another without recieving anything in return) doesn't exist (atleast among humans, with animals it's still up in the air until people manage to agree whether or not animals experience the same emotions as humans, and why the hell wouldn't they? but I digress).
Nobody does something without getting something else in return, even if it's the warm fuzzies that Hallmark is always blathering about. You do something beneficial for another you're going to feel nice about it which IS getting something in return. The only way you wouldn't is if you didn't realize you were doing it, but then altruism has to be a conscious act so that scenario is out of the picture. So, therefore thus (and I realize those two words basically mean the same thing), altruism among humans doesn't exist.

Which fits nicely into my little philosophy:
Atruism doesn't exist
Karma is bull-crap
The universe is spitfull

but in my defence I am a sleep-deprived, caffeine addicted, starving university student who has recently become dis-enchanted with the world and the direction it's headed.
Can't say I didn't warn you.