One Life to Live

The second argument is that altruism leads to a denial of the value of individuality. It states that the ethics of altruism is not about to live life, but how to sacrifice it.

It all boils down to the following way of thinking: a person has one life to live. If we value the individual, then this life is most important. Altruism sees the life of the individual as something to be sacrificed for the good of others. As such, the ethics of altruism does not take into consideration the value of the individual human life. Whereas, ethical egoism does take the value of the individual life into serious consideration.