Voat is not all bad - and despite the best efforts of the admin there, they have not yet been distilled into a single depressing mind. They seem to value family and extended family highly, and believe that impractical altruism is foolish, I basically agree with those sentiments.
'Rise above' is perhaps putting too positive a slant on it, but we have the ability to think and reason - some of us have come to value other things over, or in addition to familial ties. It is a difficult process learning to trust a stranger, but I'm sure you support and would sacrifice some things for people outside your extended family who promote ideas that you strongly believe in.
I assume you have some basic empathy as well? If you were directly confronted with a stranger in extreme pain - and could alleviate that pain or not for say, $10, without anyone knowing your decision - would you be tempted to pay?
I didn't mean to insult you above - though I see how the intelligence comment could be taken that way. I appreciate you giving your opinion, and I'm not disagreeing with it or saying it's somehow invalid.
Yes, safe to say altruism makes people feel good. Perhaps part of that is rising above the biological rules.