On Balance Humans Should Adopt Ethical Egoism as a Worldview

Pro has staked his prospects of victory upon a very minor concession I made, and that error is what damns him in this debate. Yes, it is true that some amount of societal benefit would result from the disappearance of moral disagreements, but that is outweighed a million times over by all the societal *harms* that egoism brings -- Pro has once again declined to respond to my argument that affirming the resolution would result in the destruction of civilization. He didn't even bother to contest that egoism promotes widespread murder, rape, and theft. .. He talks about how there would be fewer wars since some of them are partially caused by moral disagreements, but that analysis neglects the undeniable fact that the vast majority of wars are primarily fought in order to further their instigators' self-interests. It's simply ridiculous to assert that the Middle Eastern oil conflicts, Hitler's expansionism, and the Mongol conquests were more motivated by lofty goals of propagating moral values than they were about securing geopolitical power & material resources. So yes, Pro's advocacy results in the disappearance of moral disagreements, but that benefit is rendered utterly negligible by the fact that his advocacy also results in the unrestrained pursuit of self-interests. I'm actually glad that Pro didn't even attempt to portray egoism as socially beneficial -- he would have embarrassed himself. There is no tenable case whatsoever in favor of the idea that the world would be a better place if everyone turned into a psychopath. Under Pro's own framework, it is clear that he has lost the debate. But let's examine some more reasons to vote Con, just for the lulz. Pro hasn't mentioned my turn on his framework a *single* time throughout this entire debate. Treat that as a concession. Perhaps he thought that if he didn't respond, it would go away. The point stands -- he is placing paramount moral value on maximizing the collective good, which implies that utilitarianism is the correct ethical system. Pro's approach to affirming the resolution inadvertently negates it by indicating that everyone should adopt utilitarianism in lieu of egoism. As for my argument that egoism is self-refuting, Pro has misunderstood it yet again. It's quite unfortunate, as I was looking forward to seeing a good response to this criticism of egoism. To clarify, I'm not relying on an alternative ethical system in order to make this argument. I'm relying on nothing more than the laws of logic. The fact is that all human beings are fundamentally the same -- conscious, rational entities with the capacity to experience meaningful pain & pleasure -- so all of their self-interests must be valued equally in order to maintain objectivity. Perhaps the reason why Pro has consistently misunderstood this argument is because I'm not presenting it clearly enough. I have a lot of characters left over, so I'll try formatting this mathematically. Let any given human being = X Under utilitarianism, all iterations of X are of equal value, as is required by the law of identity. So the data set we'd be working with when making utilitarian moral calculations would look something like this: X = 100 X = 100 X = 100 X = 100 However, egoism tells you to value yourself above everyone else, despite the fact that you're just another iteration of X Under egoism, the data set with which moral calculations are made looks more like this: X = 100 X = 100 X = 1000000 X = 100 Clearly, this disobeys the law of identity. In order to make egoism consistent with reality, we have to correct its data set so that all iterations of X = 100 . .. in other words, we have derived utilitarianism from egoism, using nothing more than the most basic of logical axioms. As Pro has helpfully pointed out for us, egoism and utilitarianism are diametric opposites, so the fact that utilitarianism can be derived from egoism renders egoism to be a self-refuting & incoherent worldview which should definitely not be adopted by anyone. There is no level on which I have not won this debate.