“For if we try saying ‘How would it be for you if everyone behaved like that?’ he will reply, ‘Well, if they did, not good, I suppose — though in fact I might do better in the resulting chaos than some of the others. But the fact is, most of them are not going to do so; and if they do ever get round to it, I shall be dead by then.’ The appeal to the consequences of an imagined universalization is an essentially moral argument, and the amoralist is, consistently, not impressed by it.”
—Bernard Williams, “Morality”