Altruism is not an enigma — it is actual, natural reality

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readAug 24, 2021

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Question from the Internet:

“What is the enigma of altruism?”

Actually, altruism is not an enigma.

It is true, that by default it is incomprehensible for us since our inherently subjective, self-serving, self-justifying, and individualistic nature is completely opposite to it, incompatible with that notion.

Still, altruism is all around us, as Nature’s fully integrated system that is built on altruistic, unconditionally, mutually serving, complementing cooperation of its myriads of diverse elements shows us how altruism actually works.

Moreover, we can now also see that while our own selfish egoism — like cancer — has no right to exist in the long term, as we consume everything including ourselves, altruism, unconditional love, service of others is the only quality that can create and sustain life.

This makes our inherently subjective egoism an enigma, an illusion we are born into, so against it, above it, we could shift ourselves to the actual reality of Natural altruism.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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