You think selfishness is immoral? Think again! To act selfishly is to act in your own self-interest. If this is immoral, then it is immoral to live because nobody can live without acting in their own self-interest. To breath is selfish; to eat is selfish; to love is selfish; to live is selfish. Everything that is good for you is in your self-interest. Also, selfishness means to exist for your own sake. You do not exist for your own sake if your duty is to serve others. Without the right to act in your own self-interest you do not own yourself and cannot live your own life. Thus, to be selfish is a very important human right. It’s the right to be free and do what you want with your life instead of being a slave.

A morality of rational and healthy selfishness means to act in your own self-interest without hurting anyone and to respect other people’s right to do the same. It means that all human individuals exist for their own sake. Each and every individual has the right to live his/her own life. This is a necessary condition for true respect between human beings. Many people believe that selfishness always means to sacrify others, but this is not in your real self-interest. A rutless criminal destroys his own life. Real and healthy selfishness does not mean to be dishonest, narrowminded, short-sighted and rude. It means to live a good and healthy life; to be happy and achieve your own values.

Those who want power don’t want you to be selfish because they want to control you. Dictators know that selfish people are their enemies because selfish people follow their own mind instead of obeying a dictator. A dictator’s goal is to turn people into puppets who blindly obeys his whishes, and the altruist morality of self-sacrifice makes it easier to achieve this goal. People who think it is their duty to sacrifice their own interests and serve others can easily be controlled.

”The wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit,” declares Hitler in Mein Kampf; a man must “renounce putting forward his personal opinion and interests and sacrifice both.” (Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels, p.68)

Evil people get more power when good people are willing to give up their own interests. Evil people can only be stopped if good people are selfish. It is only rational and ethical selfishness that can prevent irrational and unethical selfishness. The altruist morality of self-sacrifice makes it easier for immoral people to get what they want. The only way to stop them is to protect your own self-interests. Don’t support your enemies! It is immoral to support immoral people. Do yourself and society a favor: be selfish!