Altruism isn’t the warm fuzzy feeling you get from being altruistic. If you’re doing it for the spiritual benefit, that is nothing but selfishness. The primary thing is to help others, whatever the means. So shut up and multiply!
That’s how you get a warm and fuzzy feeling if you’re a consequentialist. If you’re a deontologist, you get it by obedience to the Rule, or often more easily by saying “Yay, Rule!”
That’s how you get a warm and fuzzy feeling if you’re a consequentialist. If you’re a deontologist, you get it by obedience to the Rule, or often more easily by saying “Yay, Rule!”