How to be a horrible person - A beginners guide to life

Self preservation and Self interest

After you have established why and if you hold value, let's discuss self-preservation and self-interest.

If you have established that you have in fact no value, you are still going to want to preserve yourself. This is not because of moral reasons, but because you are essentially an animal and are therefore forced by your instincts to continue your worthless life.

If you have however established that you have value, you are going to want to fight to preserve that value, as already established in the last chapter. Whatever gives you value needs to be preserved at all costs and everything that could ever possibly be a threat needs to be eradicated in some way. This also refers to people who do not like you.

To preserve your value, you will have to keep on proving continuously that it is in fact still there.

The next point we are going to discuss is self-interest. As animals, every single one of us is naturally interested first and foremost in our own needs and desires. First and foremost, we don't even know about other people's desires and needs, and neither do other people know of ours. This proves without exception that all people do in fact care about themselves before everyone else. Anyone who denies this is lying, trying to deceive and take advantage of other people. Telling other people that helping you would make them happy is an advisable thing to do.

Everyone naturally cares firstly for themselves. Anyone that does something that isn't self-serving is buying into the myth that selfless acts would be beneficial to ourselves. Many people believe this without having ever questioned it. It is in fact completely untrue that helping others would serve our self-interest and is therefore stupid. Do not deny your animalistic nature and put your own interest over that of others, always.

Oftentimes self-interest comes from a place of self-preservation. Our instincts are evolved enough to not only recognize immediate dangers but also things that could help our self-preservation in the long-term.