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I wouldn\'t say it\'s a bug in altruism itself, as much as a bug in the hyper-extended and over-entitled version of altruism that forms the core doctrine of Marxist beliefs. It is possible for a society to be altruistic, by maintaining legal and ethical codes that don\'t prejudge members outside the known community of individuals. \
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I wouldn\\\'t say it\\\'s a bug in altruism itself, as much as a bug in the hyper-extended and over-entitled version of altruism that forms the core doctrine of Marxist beliefs. It is possible for a society to be altruistic, by maintaining legal and ethical codes that don\\\'t prejudge members outside the known community of individuals. \\\"Moral myopia,\\\" or at least the obsession with it, stems from an insistence that all people must not only be innocent until proven guilty, but also be innocent unless their special circumstances as an individual be taken into account... in short, there must be a different set of legal codes and requirements specially tailored to the circumstances of each individual. This is the diametric opposite of the actual concept of justice, in which it is as wrong for a prince to commit a crime as it is for a pauper, and as unjust to let a pauper get away with crimes as it is to let off a prince. Justice, and the morality it enforces, must not only be myopic, but outright blind, to be anything other than a masquerade hiding rampant injustice. The fact that enough Tropers reject the concept of \\\"blind justice\\\" in favor of \\\"justice according to social class\\\" to create a page dedicated to this trope doesn\\\'t bode well for western civilization.
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Why did half the series list and all the trope examples get deleted? I assume it was a mistake; if no one tells me differently I\'m going to restore it all in a few hours.
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Nevermind.
