My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values

[Iroscato]

Then you would seem to have a very poor grasp of it.

I understand empathy fine, I just see it as a clear product of self interest. Empathy is the ability to share the feelings of another. But, the fact is, you aren't that person, you are you. So, really, what you are doing is attempting to share the feelings of another, and you are using your own framework to simulate that feeling. That's why people typically do not empathize with people or beings that they do not understand. There's little or no basis to begin that process. You need some kind of common ground to justify the process of empathy, and that is rooted in selfish interest. Example: this person is sad because she just lost her loved one. I feel bad for her and can imagine how she is feeling because I would feel bad if I lost a love one. This person is with me on my feeling that losing a loved one is a negative experience.  

Yes, hence why I don't make a habit of squishing them, and often help spiders and moths out of the house when I can. 

And how many sleepless nights have you had over the ones who didn't survive this loose policy of yours?

As for humans, yes I do, because I happen to be one of them and automatically come equipped with, and I feel I must bold it this time...empathy. I really had little choice in the matter, it was hard-wired into my DNA.

Care to offer any, and I feel I must bold this, compelling evidence?

To a point, yes. I am capable of empathising with even the likes of Hitler and Stalin to a certain extent.

If it's "hard wired" into your DNA, why is it merely to a point?

I truly hope it is

And there we have it. At the heart of your objection is merely an individual emotional desire to view the world in a way that you feel favors you.

*Shrugs* Whatever you say, matey. Different strokes for different folks. Thank you for misrepresenting and selectively quoting though, you stay classy