taelor comments on Fake Selfishness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taelor 21 October 2011 07:08:00AM *  1 point [-]

It is perfectly selfish to love what you love, and hate what you hate. To care about what you care about. Why should I limit my concerns to what lies in a 1 inch bubble around myself? It's not what concerns you that makes you an egoist, it's whether you bow to an ideological compulsion to serve an alien concern over your own.

Note that Stirner believed that it is impossible to serve an alien concern over your own. That fact that you are concerned with something makes it your concern. Stirner called people who claim to serve an alien concern above their own "involuntary egoists", and found the entire state of affairs to be laughably absurd.