Egoism is better then Utilitarianism

Thank you for an interseting debate. Welcome to DDO. "Egoism is better then Utilitarianism"Pro has the burden of proof in this debate and therefore must respond to the resolution by proving that egoism is better than utilitarianism. better - of superior quality or excellenceNegations N1) Just because something is a natural habit does not make it good or better than something else of unnatural habit. For example, following your logic, it would be a natural instinct or habit to try and reproduce with the most desirable female availible to you even if that female isn't your wife. Natural habit and egoism say that having sex with the most desirable female is both a natural instinct and self pleasuring but in doing so you will damage a multitude of relationships. Just because something is "natural" or a "habit" does not make it better than something that is not natural.N2) The air plane oxygen mask example is a poor one because the airlines were not thinking of utilitarianism or egoism but in fact are acting in a manner that would best avoid a lawsuit in case someone failed to put their mask on first. It does not say that you should put your mask on and your mask only but to help others after your mask is on. Helping others would fall under utilitarianism while egoism would say to put your mask on and then stop there because there is no self interest in helping the child next to you. So, even in this situation, egoism would lead to less help in an emergency situation while utilitarianism would go for the largest amount of net happiness which in a case like this would lead to a better societal result than egoism. N3) While yes, you can technically help others after you have helped yourself, traditional egoism puts the individual person at the center of ALL actions and a person truly practicing egoism and not a version of self tinged altruism (which is what you described) would not help anyone else at all. Helping someone else in a bad situation, even if your needs have been met, is not egoism but rather altruism. Egoism focuses soley on the individual and no one else. N4) If we are looking at which of these two philosophies are "better" then the self-esteem of one person does not help the case of egoism over utilitarianism. I will go more into this in my next point and my main argument...Net HappinessTo gauge whether one school of thought is "better" than the other we must then find a common denominator between the two to make an actual comparison with. We cannot determine which is "better" without creating a basis for comparison. We cannot simply say one is better than the other without some sort of grounds for doing so or the points made will be useless.Since egoism focuses on self needs and self interests we can safely say that fulfilling these needs and interests will cause the person fulfilling them to be happy. The reason for acting on a want or need is to alleviate negative feelings in order to creat positive ones which we will call happiness. It is safe to say the goal of egoism is to make the one practicing it happy. This works because utilitarianism is also about generating happiness however utilitarianism does so in a way that creates the most amount of happiness for a specific group of people without regard to the individuals themselves. Therefore, if we take it in terms of net happiness utilitarianism by nature and in practice will create more net happiness than egoism.For example:Take the situation I presented earlier. You [a man with a wife and kids] have the chance to have sex with an extremely attractive female. This female wants to engage in illicit activites with you creating hightened experiences of pleasure, happiness, daring, self-esteem and well ego. In terms of egoism, this is a huge gain for the individual who, in the moment, will take in massive amounts of personal positive emotions for this action. If the man is practicing egoism he will sleep with the woman.In doing so the man has now made his wife extremely unhappy, his friends think a little less of him and his kids are confused. If the man had been practicing utilitarianism he would have refrained from having sex with the woman in order to increase the net happiness of his friends and family while generating disappointment on his part. If we want to compare which is "better", using happiness as a medium we can see that utilitarianism generates more happiness and is therefore "better" than egoism.Utilitarianism will always generate more happiness because that is the nature of the idea - to generate the maximum amount of happiness through actions.Therefore, egoism is not better than utilitarianism; ever. Thank you.