for DIMF:

I am certainly no silly little "slave", either to my conscience or to my social obligations.

I just sleep better at night knowing I haven't trampled anybody to get what I need. (I have been trampled, used, stepped over and harmed by people behaving this way.)

I would take another look at how you are viewing life overall, before you go making any gross, sweeping generalizations about people in the future. Your approach is terribly simplistic and self-serving, and it's bound to gain you many enemies before you're all through.

Time and experience have taught me that compassion is a much better ethos to embrace, than undiluted self-interest is...for so many reasons.