At least 50% of the population normalises a belief, that you give certain people more privileges, to a degree that the receivers have some power to hurt the giver. On one hand, this trustful assumption provides good infrastructure for commerce ( visible or invisible ), and on the other hand, it depends on a mass of individuals to broadly compromise personal security. So altruism sets a stage for sudden robbery of the masses. It is legal - but whether it is ethical, depends on whom you ask.
I have friends in the altruistic camp who are often handing out bits of their security, and crying when they don't get it back. I am not sure how to counsel them, except that they should take fewer risks with themselves.
In the cases where one party loses security, but no party gains any, it probably counts as net value destruction for society.
Oh well, protocol wars abound.
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