Furthermore, the altruist's impractical moral code eventually vitiates his or her view of human nature. Altruists cannot totally evade the fact that their moral standards are not practiced faithfully, either by themselves or by other altruists (and certainly not by egoists). Consequently, they come to regard human beings as innately sinful and contemptible. In the long run, this contempt tends to extend even to those who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of altruistic causes.

Altruism is also doomed to fail in social practice. In an altruistic culture, those who most consistently practice the "good" (as defined by that culture) are penalized and destroyed, deprived of happiness and eventually of life itself. Also penalized are all who produce values, since those values must be sacrificed to others. The long-run consequence is that even the values needed to realize altruistic "good deeds" vanish from such a society. (Ample practical illustrations will be provided in Section 5.)