Here you will find "the Paradoxical Commandments" from Kent M.Keith. Let's see what our usual theist have to say about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_M._Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
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Priest rape your children
Send them to the priest anyway
Hum, xenoview, I am not understanding why you are answering this way.
@xenoview
Priest rape your children
Send them to the priest anyway
Imo that's an especially vile generalisation, and unsupported by evidence.
@Talyyn
The paradoxical commandments are certainly warm and fuzzy ,but naive as principles imo.
My world view is pragmatic and egoist.
It is my life observation that when push comes to shove, the real world operates on one and only one principle; the tends justify the means. OF COURSE this is a generalisation, and there are always exceptions. However, those exceptions are not the norm.
My view is that human beings are essentially self interested. That self interest and fear are the most powerful motivators.
I used the term 'egoist' instead of 'egotist'. They are not necessarily the same . Eg a social animal ,it is in my best interest to obey the rules and mores of the society in which I live.
Before we acquired the veneer of civilisation, acceptance by the group was often a matter of life and death.
As far as I'm aware I have never met nor heard about anyone who meets my definition of a purely altruistic person. IE for me an altruist is a person who does what he/she considers right/moral for its own sake, without emotion. .People who look as if they may have done that did that include the Buddha and Jesus, as their lives are reported. However, all we know of each of them is myth.