The people of the soviet union were a resource that Stalin had a great amount of control over, and so even if he was perfectly selfish and uncaring towards his people, he would prefer to preserve that resource. The selfish benefit to be gained from saving a life in Africa is negligible, and is vastly outweighed by the cost.
I suppose I should clarify that I’m taking “love” in this context to basically mean the same thing as “like”—in many contexts it’s not just a mere difference of degree, but in the context of “loving humanity” and such phrases I think it probably is.
The people of the soviet union were a resource that Stalin had a great amount of control over, and so even if he was perfectly selfish and uncaring towards his people, he would prefer to preserve that resource. The selfish benefit to be gained from saving a life in Africa is negligible, and is vastly outweighed by the cost.
I suppose I should clarify that I’m taking “love” in this context to basically mean the same thing as “like”—in many contexts it’s not just a mere difference of degree, but in the context of “loving humanity” and such phrases I think it probably is.