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Full Idea
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
Gist of Idea
Total selfishness is not irrational
Source
David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739], II.III.ii)
Book Ref
Cottingham,John: 'Rationalism' [Paladin 1984], p.130