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This pre-supposes two things. First that people see enlightened self-interest as the best way to attain their goals, and second that their goals are not seen as anathema by society. Much of the world does not, in fact, practice enlightened self-interest. Instead, most developing nations...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-question_argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact%E2%80%93value_distinction Should is meaningless. Unless you can actually do something to bridge the gap between what should happen and what does happen...

People still don't act that way, even with your looser definition. People act against their own self interests all the time, because consciousness is not a single cohesive algorithm but rather a group of mismatched algorithms. Because of that, it is fundamentally impossible for humans be be...

There's also the problem that people aren't rational, and any theory of ethics that depends on human rationality is doomed from the start, and have before.

Nietzschean morality is like the realpolitik of ethics. It points at the fact that laws are followed due to force and fear and the habits they form, that the ultimate legitimacy of the state is the force it can bear upon all who would question its authority. A group may vote themselves...