unironically this
Rational egoism > ethical egoism
Why is it wrong to use the term 'nigger', comrades?
Jace Ward
Matthew Hill
Nothing. Much like faggot, spic, chink, kike, cracker, dyke.
If you continue to hold these words to such a high standard of moral depravity, then you continue to give them the power you so desperately want them to not have.
Christopher Martin
Your entire conceptual framework is insufficient to understand egoism if this is the best you can define it.
It's descriptive, not prescriptive primarily. The point is to recognize that you can only act according to your beliefs, that the world you inhabit is a phantasm in which only you exist (and even that's highly questionable). You don't have access to the real world, just the constructed world inside your head. Everything in that world is yours and a part of you. Therefore it is all your property and anything you do is defined according to some interest established within yourself. The telos of egoism is to parse out what is in your actual interests as the living breathing animal you are as opposed to the "spooks" or external ideas that demand your obediance to them and identification with them.
Ayden Collins
ethics are literally self-government. what do you think egoism is?
Brandon Butler
Egoism can't provide a guide to action because sticking "self" in front of "interest" doesn't do anything to answer what "interest" is. It's just dodging the question of what makes something good. You'd have to be some kind of idiot to think that someone who replies "whatever is good for me" has answered the question "what makes something good."
As a description (pychological egoism), it also fails. People who jump on grenades to save a group of people very obviously aren't acting in self-interest. There are actual examples of self-sacrifice that provide a counterexample to psychological egoism.
More often than not, it's just a bait and switch that nihilists and hedonists use to justify their shitty, antisocial behavior. As a prescriptive, ethical egoism falls flat and has no explanatory power. As a descriptive, psychological egoism is outright demonstrably incorrect.
Parker Perry
most people do that knowing they will afterwards be known as martyr. an egoist cares as much about his self-expression as much as he desires, likewise as he does his physical being.
this is literally the same as
it's a non argument, and it makes you come off as a whining brainlet liberal.
what egoism explains is that only dumb short-sighted people do hedonistic, antisocial things, because in the long run it is against ones self-interest.
Anthony Torres
Is it because you believe completely stupid, indefensible things?
Why should you value the long run over the short run?
Why should you be smart instead of dumb?
Why shouldn't you be hedonistic or antisocial?
You can't even answer simple questions like these without referencing some other conception of the good, proving you're just a morally bankrupt charlatan pretending to have answers you don't.
Hunter Richardson
you didn't even read my post, holy shit. are you a bot?
Jason Morris
Anthony Williams
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