What Ethical Egoism Doesn't Say

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Ethical egoism does not counsel impulse or short-term pleasure; the theory directs each person to the long-run version of her own good.

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The theory scolds the gambler emptying his savings tonight as sternly as any moralist — the quarrel is with his arithmetic, not his aim.

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