Egoism is the force that allows one to squelch thoughts like "I'm just a speck in a giant universe/What gives me more right to exist than X/Aren't we really all the same inside" so you can go about the business of poisoning that cockroach, slaughtering and eating that cow, testing that medicine on that monkey, grabbing that parking space first, and out-competing that other poor SOB with 3.5 mouths to feed for that job.

As the philosopher Alfred Doolittle said, "I know I ain't deservin' guvnor...but I eat as much as a deserving man...I drink alot more...."
Nah, just did most of my chest thumping long before now. Read the sig..... 