Alright now you ' re just being a condescending asshole , implying that my age and relative lack of experience somehow invalidate the points I have made here . Friendship , love , beauty , experience . all that stuff falls under the category of hedonism once you realise that human behaviour is driven by nothing more than the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain . Gandhi was every bit as selfserving as Hitler or Jeffrey Dahmer the only difference between him and them is that he was ' lucky ' enough to have an ego which drove him to do things which benefited other people . ' Good ' people are just heaps of atoms whose past behaviour leads society to believe that they will tend to act in ways which increase our overall wellbeing . My point isn ' t that it will necessarily be in my interest to murder or rape anyone , to take drugs and behave in a reckless , selfdestructive manner only that there is no reason for me not to do any of these things if , having weighed up all the costs and benefits , I decide that I want to .