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> Most people would call helping a relative pay their medical bills altruism. Altruism is the disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

• NateEag 4y ago
  > Helping your family is not altruism. Not necessarily altruism. It absolutely could be. Knowing the true motives of another human is very difficult, perhaps impossible (without a predictive biological model of consciousness we can't be sure we're reading minds correctly, and it's still an open question whether such a thing can exist).