taelor comments on Fake Selfishness - Less Wrong
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I guess I didn't make myself clear. I'm not concealing a fundamental concern for my neighbor's well being. I have it, and I think Stirner does too, despite his disingenuous denial here. Hence my comment that he writes, at least in part, out of love for some men.
Stirner, The Ego and It's Own:
It's the commandment of love he rejects, not his own love.
Loving other men is no more unselfish than loving your car. You like it shiny and running well, maybe even after you sell it to someone else.
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.
My own take on Stirner's Egoism is that it is best distinguished as the antidote to various forms of Moral Objectivism, not Altruism.
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.