Ayn Rand's concept of morality represents the common error which is often expressed by atheists and appears to be held by many conservatives. She was adamantly opposed to altruism. She considered it to be self-sacrifice and self-destruction.

The framework of that attitude was a complete refusal to accept spiritual existence, which she referred to as the supernatural. But morality is the same for material and spiritual life. The correct definition of morality is, that which sustains life. She defined morality as a code of values which determines purpose and course of life.

So the question is, what is the role of altruism in morality. Christians are the primary promoters of morality, and they consider altruism to be an important part of it. Ayn Rand asks why—why should man be a sacrificial animal living for the good of others. She says, no earthly reason has every been given.

The reason, earthly and spiritually, is that people must get along with each other. The type of altruism that fixes human problems is not the nickel and dime giving which Ayn Rand refers to. Her error originates in part in an extremely warped concept of giving. The Christian concept of giving is not nickeling and diming oneself away. It is solving problems for needy and vulnerable persons. In other words, it is doing something far more real than Ayn Rand could conceptualize.

Christ taught that the needy must be the focus of giving. First, this defines morality clearly, because there is no question of what the needy want. Solving their problems is always good for them directly, and for everyone else indirectly. When conservatives so shameless shove the lower classes out of the economy and strip welfare from the government, they demonstrate that they don't personally care what happens to the needy, and they don't assume there is a social benefit from solving their problems.

If they don't personally care what happens to the vulnerable and powerless victims of injustice, then they aren't going to be able to get along with them—for the rest of eternity. Atheists claim they are only concerned about the here and now. But if they are going to allow or create injustices against vulnerable persons, their human problems are never going to end.

The corrupters who perpetrate injustices against the needy assume in their own minds that the victims can be flushed down some invisible drain and disappeared. One reason why that doesn't happen is because there is no such drain. The homeless don't disappear on the streets. There are too many to lock them all up. And the numbers keep increasing due to the injustices being perpetrated against them. This is the most basic error of corrupters. Once they start perpetrating (or allowing, which is the same thing) injustices against vulnerable persons, the results become unlimited, until everyone is sinned against. Where is the stopping point? There is none. Corrupters don't really care any more about their supposed friends than their enemies. People only have one set of values. If they hate one person, they hate everyone. Hate is a developed force in the mind which permeates everything in the mind.

Of course, the pretense of corrupters is that people create their own problems, and looking the other way isn't hate, it is just being realistic. No one creates their own problems. The victims of injustices, or powerless and vulnerable persons, have unlimited ability to solve their own problems when allowed to. More than anything, they need the justice which results from truth. All of the wars, starvation and disease are created through injustices, they aren't something people do to themselves. Doing something about the wars, starvation and disease requires solving problems and producing justice, which in turn requires producing truth. Only truth ends the sin which causes the problems.