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This 3 page paper is a rebuttal to James Rachels' arguments against Ethical Egoism.
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favoring ourselves over someone else is to say that we are better than that person. In such a case, we are entitled to special treatment that is not extended to
the other, inferior person. Such thinking, he maintains, is unjustified. He precedes this argument by examining those situations in which the argument is made that some groups are better
than others, and so merit special treatment because of their superiority. This is of course a specious argument; racism is its most virulent example. Rachels uses this to lead to
his concluding argument against Ethical Egoism, which narrows from the example of superior groups to that of superior individuals, as noted above. There are several reasons why Rachels argument
is flawed but well look at only two: the first is that we are all different; the second is that there are many examples throughout history of people who truly
are superior, and therefore merit special treatment. Rachels misstep is in equating "special treatment" with "unfair treatment." First, lets consider his argument that we are all the same and that
no one should consider himself superior. He is considering this from the point of view of humans as individual members of the human race, and concluding that because we are
all the same species, we are all precisely equal. That is clearly untrue: we are all very different in physical appearance, and we all have various abilities in greater or
lesser measure. Its fair to say that we can all write, but few of us make our living as writers; likewise we can all sing (barring some physical injury) but
few of us are good enough to make our living as performers. To maintain, therefore, that "... there is no general difference between oneself and others, to which each person
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