Why is not possible for ethical egoism to be the rule in the society?
It’s not in my self- interest, I need you and you need me for too many things. You need my opinion and I need yours. I need your love and you need mine. Those who advocate ethical egoism seriously, usually do so at the expense of redefining “self-interest” to include the interests of others. It also may be argued that harming or enslaving others is what is one’s best self-interest. An ethical egoist might counter this by asserting that furthering the ends of others is sometimes the best means of furthering one’s own ends, or that simply by allowing liberty to others one’s self-interest is resultantly furthered. Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. Consider our relations with others as constituting the boundaries of morality. With ourselves, we stand on the ground of identity, not of relation, which last, requiring two subjects, excludes self-love confined to a single one. To ourselves, in strict language, we can ow
