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Yes I agree its a doublw standard.
I think the reason you see this with activists is that they grab whatever suits them at the time for an argument. Whether its rational or in line with the rest of their arguments does not bother them. They are pushing their agenda and they are not interested in investigating their own agenda for flaws, since they already believe in it enough to become activists.
One would hope that people only become activists after looking at the issue objectively, although idealism wins the day on that front almost everytime.
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Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.
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