His only real concern, like the “strict Epicurean” he characteristically is, amounts to the “Pig Philosophy," the "Philosophy Satisfied," of "Altruistic" Hedonism, the kind from which one can expect no gesture of compassion, regardless of how desperately as well as deservedly needed, and how easily bestowable, unless it expects to be, in some way, selfishly and immediately rewarded in return, rather than “cynically used” and “taken.