Is self-interest on taxes moral?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Self-interest as a motivation for anything is inherently immoral.

Could it be amoral?

ADDENDUM: I don't have particularly much interest in this topic, but do you believe self-preservation is inherently immoral? (And, if we must bring this back to taxes, surely there are points where one is driven beyond their ability to survive--at least with some modicum of comfort--wing to confiscatory taxation; take the situation in Russia under both Tsarism and crash industrialization)

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Do you similarly consider self defense and related activities to lack a moral character?

Perhaps needless to say, I would differ by some degree, considering it foremost among the duties of a living creature to fend for itself. This has caveats of course (and runs the risk of some libertarian misinterpretation), but I am speaking from outside of the many real-life situations of scarcity wherein self-sacrifice might be paramount to collective survival.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Do you similarly consider self defense and related activities to lack a moral character?

I don't see how that's a relevant question. Self-defense and other activity can be easily justified on the basis of a universal right to life.

Hm. I contemplated self-preservation as perhaps the most immediate act of self-interest. You are framing self-preservation (or in this case stated "self defense"), it is moral for the act of defense, having little to do with it be oneself or someone else. Hm.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Do you similarly consider self defense and related activities to lack a moral character?

I don't see how that's a relevant question. Self-defense and other activity can be easily justified on the basis of a universal right to life.

Hm. I contemplated self-preservation as perhaps the most immediate act of self-interest. You are framing self-preservation (or in this case stated "self defense"), it is moral for the act of defense, having little to do with it be oneself or someone else. Hm.

Exactly.

And I thought I'd become collectivist recently.