My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values

[smax]

It's amazing how popular this idea that everything is rooted in selfishness is. This idea only works though if you expand the definition of selfishness so much to the point the word becomes meaningless.

I don't think it's that complicated at all. But, perhaps to sort through an obvious objection you have to this philosophical point of view, you could provide the alternative to this theory which you feel is clearly a better explanation for moral values in human beings. 

And, by the way, I never, not even in the slightest, tried to pass this theory off as my own, hence, the words "supporting POV" in the thread title.