If you want to be my friend, great. Oh, your interpretation of friendship is endless competing, vying for ran, game-playing, broken promises, lying and struggling to establish in-group dominance in their social hierarchy with you one or two rungs on top of me. I am dumping you immediately.
You are not moral and between friends there must be moral trust, honesty, and genuine equality, that both persons are on the same level.
Altruists compete against others and vie for power incessantly but accede and submit if a rival is more entrenched, more popular--ergo, more desirable to associate with.
Healthy, unselfish egoists and individualists cooperate in the social arena, and are more honest, trustworthy, and egalitarian. We all know or should know and admit that friendship between egoists is genuine, and friendship among altruists is socially tainted by group-living.
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