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Yes. I don't think it should be described as altruism, because while that may be what your average biologist understands it as, the word has much greater religious and cultural significance outside of that with different meanings.

No. Does it benefit a mother to sacrifice her life for her child? Who decides that? The mother does. If the mother does, it means she prefers a scenario where she dies and her child lives than where she lives and her child dies. Therefore, sacrificing herself for her child benefits her. That...

No, you're wrong, and you even prove yourself wrong. You see, "altruism" means this: What you are talking about is not altruism. "Joy at advancing the interests of another" is not altruism. Donating to charity is not altruism. People raise children not out of rational self interest or out of...

Altruism doesn't exist.