[Lady Lucky]

If they stopped working they would die and the Altruists know it. It is their own virtues that they use as the weapon against them.

I don't believe they'd die. They wouldn't even have to stop for very long.

But if I have to die for my country, I'll take it on the porch rocker now, rather than in the coming chaos of a full meltdown, catastrophe, martial law, confiscation, seizure, glass-busting, tank-rolling rodeo. Imagine that, and it makes early retirement and porch warming look easy.

[albionin]

Then why don’t they? Because they are too in love with life and because they live by one code when it comes to their own life but by another in their dealings with others. They are trying to “balance individualism and Altruism”.