If we assume there are four moral motives: psychological egoism that is good (love of Good Spirits and the self, first, and others secondarily; psychological egoism that is hatred of self, others and the Good Spirits, selfish and cruel outbursts in all directions being evinced; psychological altruism as good altruism, noble self-sacrifice for the sake of others; psychological altruism as complete self-loathing, mindless absorption into the herd, and fanatical devotion to one cause and its guru that one worships.
Then I promote normative egoism as rational egoism under which one takes care God’s needs, the needs of oneself mostly, but cares for others too. This is our first ethical priority.
I promote good normative altruism as a secondary priority in which one sacrifices the self for the sake of others, the nation, and the Good Spirits.
Third, I denounce normative bad egoism as mindless selfishness and pursuit of one’s own pleasures and desires without realizing or caring who gets hurt.
Fourth, I repudiate bad altruism as pure evil where selflessness, pure and robust in the agent, leads to hatred and destruction of all.
I suggest that normatively good egoism and good altruism are to be enhanced, and normatively bad egoism and bad altruism are to be minimized, for we always sin to some degree. Promoting the former is loving and worthy and engaging in the latter two is hate-embracing and destructive for all.
Moral moderation as an axiom would seem to imply that we seek our self interest in most cases, but also sacrifice ourselves for the group upon occasion.
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