Is there some ontological crisis that you are facing, that moved this article?

I explained this in the post:

I recently realized that a couple of problems that I've been thinking over (the nature of selfishness and the nature of pain/pleasure/suffering/happiness) can be considered instances of ontological crises in humans (although I'm not so sure we necessarily have the cognitive algorithms to solve them). I started thinking in this direction after writing this comment: [...]

If you're asking whether it's something more personal, the answer is no, I've always been interested in moral philosophy and this just part of my continuing investigations.