I have been in a quandary over what selfishness means and as to its moral value. More than several years ago now, I converted into the thinking that there is no such thing as selflessness, since every act, is and must be an act for the self, since everything anyone does benefits themselves in some way.

And for a very long time this is what I thought. Entailed in this thinking, was the belief that only being concerned for oneself, or involved with oneself wasn’t bad selfishness, and since selfishness itself was considered a moral standard, one could never be ‘too selfish.’