Very good post! I really like the way you approach the problem, even though I think that whether is extreme altruism an attribute or a handicap is a never ending dilemma.
I'm interested in your opinion about how not living close to nature has changed the rules (of Darwinian evolutionary theory I suppose); I never thought about it, but it seems a reasonable statement up to a certain limit
RE: Extreme Altruism and the Psychopathic Brain.