| I have never seen a single person who is not selfish.
Why do people make friends? Because if you don't you're going to look bad in front of people. Not because you care about your friends, but because you use them to enhance your own image. Friendship is based on necessity; you support each other in order to improve your own chances in life.
Like comradeship; when you go to war you don't necessarily love your platoon, but you stick together because you know if you don't, you'll end up dead.
Love? I doubt it exists. People "love" other people to improve their own emotional wellbeing. If love really exists, why do people divorce?
Family is obvious. Even if you hate your family, you're not going to put up with somebody else insulting your family. Why? Because you feel you have a role to protect your family even if you hate them; unconsciously you become humiliated if you fail to protect them.
Ideological loyalty is the act of giving your soul to a vague concept, to be manipulated by people smarter than you. |