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    1 year ago

    I mean, I love humanity deeply. So I feel for me to be happy I have to do something to help humanity.

    But that’s literally just because I want to be happy.

    Like Stirner said, paraphrasing here, “because I’m an egoist I want to help those around me. Their happiness is mine, and their suffering as well. I help them only to help me”. Truly conscious egoism is to serve humanity. It’s our burden as humans. We were born intrinsically linked to a whole universe of people.