This occurred because people who are using this idea lose focus on other moral boundaries and crossing them. People started to become a little too selfish to the point where they will do everything that will satisfy their needs without regard to people around. Like in the Kant essay where I spoke about means and ends, the idea that everyone should be treated as an end instead of mean has basically become non-existent. Now people are starting to use others to improve or gain something and not caring how that will affect the person they are using as a mean. In my view, Ethical Egoism has become a tool that has turned into a weapon. For example, a screwdriver was made to be used a tool the drives down screws, but now people are starting to use it as an object that can puncture the skin (a stabbing
This occurred because people who are using this idea lose focus on other moral boundaries and crossing them. People started to become a little too selfish to the point where they will do everything that will satisfy their needs without regard to people around. Like in the Kant essay where I spoke about means and ends, the idea that everyone should be treated as an end instead of mean has basically become non-existent. Now people are starting to use others to improve or gain something and not caring how that will affect the person they are using as a mean. In my view, Ethical Egoism has become a tool that has turned into a weapon. For example, a screwdriver was made to be used a tool the drives down screws, but now people are starting to use it as an object that can puncture the skin (a stabbing