people who want to act fundementally selfishly have spent a lot of time and ink trying to convince other people that actually everyone wants to act like this, its human nature, because, Prisoners Dilemma-like, that view of humanity as selfish justifies their own impulses towards selfishness. European colonial powers are at the top of this list.
its a tautalogical solipsism:
- i want to do things that will benefit me and hurt other people
- morally this is pretty obviously bad
- everyone else obviously thinks the same way i do, though
- so they are morally bad
- so its justified and not morally bad for me to hurt them for my own benefit
a fucking oroboros of narcissism. ok im done now