Altrusim

do you practice it - ? Is it worth doing? calssic or mudd?

conscience salving is still self-interest imo

like a salve on yoru soul? you feel good about yrouseilf>?

nice to be nice, as brucie says

I feel guilty if I do not act altruistically - that seems like some sort of self deafeating loop

At its most basic level altruism is simply doing something helpful or nice for someone else, without any conscious expectation of requittal. It doesn't have to be self-sacrificing in a big way in order to qualify. This sort of thing is the rule among humans, even though there are a few arseholes who prove to be exceptions.

yeah even if you want to say "altruism is done to make the altruist feel good" there wd be a chunk of humanity for whom that wdn't be the case

in terms of it not making them feel good, i mean

is altruism a biological quality?

(raises eyebrows in anticiapation of respoance"

Altruism among social animals is adaptive, so one can assume it evolved (in some sense). Whether it is a genetic trait among humans is unanswerable. Most likely there is some genetic disposition to it, but what that really means is unclear.

maybe altruism with a special subroutine for "help myself above others when I can in secret)

yeah thats right, lately I am combining punctions