I have a few questions though, how about love?
Love for a person/animal or any other thing you might think of that you could love.
Isnt that, or does it come close to Altruism?
A human being driven purely by its ego, would compromise as little as possible, and since we are all human beings with ego aspects we have to live together. Which means we will have to compromise our ego's wish every day ( or at least many times ) Sure this might be because we just "have"to ( because of laws and such ), but when love comes into play you can actually "want" to compromise your own wants and needs. This could just be because you like to be treated by others in a good way so you feel better, that "that" might be why you treat others in a nice way and compromise certain ego urges, so that the main urge of the ego is still satisfied.
A mother giving her life for that of her child, out of love? or should we call that instinct
Another question is: How does an objectivist experience love? and would this mean a true objective person would let his/her child die just because it is more rational toward the self? After all you could just make another one and not end the self.
Why do we like to see people happy, and why do we often feel happy ourselves when people we love are happy?
I myself love people that live by what they feel and try to symphatize with all that they encounter, instead of categorising everything as more or less or no value at all. We already have computers for that.
Also if all people would symphatise with all that is around them instead of focussing on only themselves and their own needs, people would help eachother and stop screwing with eachothers lives all over the world just because they "want more". An objectivist would have to realise that from that moment on people would symphatise with them, thesame way they themselves would symphatise with those people. I think it would be obvious that happyness all over the world would increase a big deal. Which would be a very rational goal to strife for. Saying supporting this goal is irrational makes you yourself one man/woman that stands in the way of something that is totally possible if you let it, instead of blocking it by not looking past your own ego. Which would then make you yourself irrational as well as hypocritical. Therefore i think selflessness can exist it is just not recognized by those who let their lives be dominated by their own ego's. Maybe selflessness transforms into unity.
Although i still stand by the idea that rationallity is subjective to the eye of the beholder.
and 100% objectivists are pretty much equal to religion extremists in my view, because they also reject other beliefs reasoning and perspectives and clearly think that those who do not follow thesame reason are inferior. which i hardly find rational in any way.
Btw:Objectivity in man has never been "proven" and phylosophers still debate over it, if it is in fact even possible to achieve, - directed to all that use the word objective like a jehova uses his/her bible -