Maximizing Moral Virtue

[Ahriman]

Hedonism is more about making you feel good, not so much the other guy.  Ostensibly, doing things that make other people happy might cause you to feel bad, and so, fail at the primary aim of pure hedonism.

You'd rather not walk to the store, and I'd rather not have to drive to the store - but neither of these things is, at first glance, an item of moral import or an expression of any particular moral system.  Examples such as these are why pure hedonism is questioned as a moral system at all.  Doing things because they feel good (to you, or to someone else) is a thing, but may not be the same thing as doing things for moral reasons.  Thus, maximizing pleasure may not maximize virtue.

To turn hedonism into something moral, people generally add the modifer "ethical hedonism" - but this..ofc, shows that there's ethics being applied to hedonism...and whatever that was, would be the actual moral system involved.

It's obvious that your "morality" and my "morality" are two fundamentally different things, I mean totally different. We're not speaking the same language. I don't want or need to be philosophical about this subject. If I make someone feel good, I've done a good thing. If I make myself feel good, even better. That's as far as I fathom it out. This is why I never feel bad after playing with myself, or playing with someone else. It's all pleasure. It's all good. It's all justified. I'm not concerned with hedonism possibly not being a legitimate moral system.