Anyone that is serious about leading the good life should be aware of this cautionary parenthesis: the more altruistic an agent is in her conscious value pronouncement, announced loftily to the world, she has virtue signaled her moral excess, her quiet-phase, mass movement embracing of groupist ethics.
The counterintuitive truth at work here is that the more altruistic in value attachment and behavior that the moral agent lives by, the more selfish, on average, that she is.
The inversion of this is that moderate egoism, practiced and held by the individuator, is held by an agent that not very selfish, racist or biased, but who is deeply impartial and altruistic.
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