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(This assumes, among other things, that these people have been reared in close enough proximity to these relatives to develop the emotional bonds that mediate kin-selected altruism.)
When genes confine altruism to kin, and deny it to needy non-kin, they are in fact failing spectacularly to be efficiently selfish.
These ‘difficult problems’ are ageing, altruism, human consciousness, complex adaptations, and the origin of living cells.
The second problem with the idea of some iron law correlating altruism with genetic relatedness--and thus correlating natural discord with genetic difference--is at least slightly more accessible.
In the case of altruism directed toward close relatives, we know that circumstances were indeed so conducive: Throughout human evolution, people were reared a) near close relatives; and b) near people who weren't close relatives.