(August 23, 2010 at 5:22 am)The Omnissiunt One Wrote:(August 23, 2010 at 5:17 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: It is a moral distinction if he's a personal ethical egoist. From Wiki: "[...]a personal ethical egoist would hold that he or she should act in his or her own self-interest, but would make no claims about what anyone else ought to do".
Agreed, but he still couldn't criticise cannibals who wanted to eat some liver with fava beans and a nice chianti.
I could if my self interest included keeping a cannibal from eating me and my kin.