[MD] The American Ruling Class

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Speaking of "egoistic selfish desires," Mother Theresa was a shining 
example. What she did filled her heart with joy...

[Arlo]
One of the more devastating fictions trumpeted by the right.

How do you know her heart was not filled with sorrow seeing so many 
suffer? Maybe she hated that her life had to spent caring for others 
rather than lounging on a beach drinking mai tais? Maybe her constant 
contact with the world's castoffs led her to secretly be consumed by 
the worst of contempt for humanity?

Aside from this, she did not act out of "egoistic selfish desire", 
she acted not in her own interests, but she set aside her own wants 
and needs in order to help others.

By your misguided notion, nothing we do can ever be anything but 
egoistic. If I run into a burning house to save a baby, it is because 
such an act makes me feel good. There can never be real "sacrifice", 
since sacrifice is always done to serve the egoism of the sacrificer. 
Hell, I bet you'd tell Christians that Jesus did not sacrifice 
himself, he acted with egoistic selfish desire, because playing a 
martyr filled his heart with joy. Selfish prick. What a strange and 
warped world you inhabit. I am happy not to be a part of that.