Individualism. Individualism is (by Wikipedia’s writers) the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that stresses “the moral worth of the individual“. Individualists promote the exercise of one’s goals and desires and so independence and self-reliance while opposing most external interference upon one’s own interests, whether by society, family or any other group or institution.

Innocently, by social interference, we have introduced since we were small kids to a predisposition “anti-individualistic”. Would have us believe that the world was and should continue to be governed by the kind of conduct to help others. Surely ideas strongly interpolated by religions, “teach us” to act in such ways.

Certainly, we do not usually grow up in an isolated environment, and we can not rule out other lessons we come to our (still innocent) learning: love ourselves before loving others, to study and understand the things to teach them to others.. Still, the task of remembering constantly (albeit implicity) that our lives are our lives but the lives of others, not lacking in almost any opportunity.

Complex would now have to decide that all that we came back and since so little kids, it might not be as well. Let’s start with a biological question, we are all different people, and reduced to the basiscs of our bodies want to stay in history as long as possible.. legacy left to us the closest thing it can be. But, of course, individually. Because «..I respecto you, though I wish you were more like me..». Let’s continue by altruism. Find spots in the defense paternal altruism (or seen another way, to defend our own offspring to continuos the life of our simillarity), pro-social performance for most human development of people (or seen another way, to impose our image of social hero where begin to govern our desires) or other examples that can be found with a little research.

What we triy to emphasize with style propositions like “to help another, we must first have extensive knowledge in many aspects”, “to have knowledge of many things we must first be human” or “to be human first we should have been conceived” and lengthening the list of ideas that may arise, is that at some point we ourselves first and then the rest of the people around us. Then you if you ever stopped to think what would be the first education they need to then demonstrate any act of (sure) pseudoaltruism you want, start by educating the individual, growing, learning and perfecting his own person and then become gregarious and plan with and for the neighbor. To a collectivist act.