RationalEgo said:

Ahimsa said:

I may be wrong, but selfish people seek my company for their benefit, at my expense.
At least, that's how i see 100% selfish people.

Being among people and sharing each others presence for a collective benefit is totally different ballgame than those who only seek to exploit you. And that is what i mean by selfisness.

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That is where you get your improper notion, selfishness should not imply that one expects others to sacrifice values to you disregarding moral conduct. It is one of those bromidal false dichotomies that forces you to accept the alternate as the good, in this case 'selflessness'. 

One values others becuase they are adding to your own enjoyment and happiness in life in a rational way. One can never gain happiness from exploiting others as those actions can never result in the necessary self-esteem to attain happiness. In fact immoral actions destroy self-esteem wherever a sacrifice is taking place.

Selflessness always holds as a standard a sacrifice of values to others. It is always improper and antithetical to ones own happiness to do anything out of a sense of 'selfless' duty divorced from reason and objective values. I would never befriend a person who considers selflessness the basis of moral action.

As I am not going to repeat myself please see my previous posts for clarification on what I mean by that.

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Poid said:

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  But the photo in your sig is food for thought and