This statement is in error. Personal injustice can be tied to any level of need/value from basic needs like security to higher level needs like self-expression. But, it is only once you reach these higher level needs that altruism begins to take hold and you begin to be concerned with injustices suffered by others.
Also, what is an injustice is tied to need level. For example, in some societies inequity between the rich and the poor is associated with birth right. If I am born into a landed aristocratic family what is considered 'just' for me is significantly different from what is considered 'just' for a poor commoner. Those of us whose value system is based on individual achievement find this abhorrent. An example nepotism has been the standard for centuries, now it is considered passe.
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