Is an anonymous and charitable action any more altruistic than one in which the people benefiting from the action know exactly who is helping them? I think the answerer to this question lies what motivation the reasoning behind staying anonymous. For instance, if you decided to donate money anonymously because you were too shy to face people, there is a much more self- interested interest than simply not caring about recognition. On the other hand, if a well known billionaire decided to give money to a charity and only gave about one million dollars they might be seen as selfish for only giving such a small sum of there riches. For that reason that person may decided to stay anonymous in order so that their donation would still be looked upon as being very generous. In that case their decision to stay anonymous would lean much farther towards being selfish, rather than simply self- interested. So I do not believe that a person is specifically more altruistic to remain anonymous and while a person's decision to remain as an anonymous detonator can in fact be very self-interested, I believe that the action of donating in the first place remains an altruistic act.
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