Ethical egoism is arbitrary and places ourselves above all others for no apparent reason. Ethical egoism divides everyone into two groups, ourselves and everyone else, and claims that we are morally superior. This raises the question: why are we ourselves morally superior to everyone else? Failing to answer this question means that the ethical egoist has no rational reason to choose himself over anyone else. So, by similar logic, it could have simply been that everyone else is morally superior to ourselves. The ethical egoist appears to be entirely arbitrary in this decision. This theory doesn't even know why it puts ourselves above everyone else. You can compare this to a racist saying that whites are more superior to blacks (Rachels). Several decades ago they would have rationally argued that blacks are intellectually inferior and a threat to world peace, but today there is substantial evidence to refute these claims. Now the racist has no reason for racial discriminations and whites and blacks are equal, which means being racist against blacks is arbitrary and has no rational reasoning. Indeed, ethical selfishness is just as arbitrary as racism is, but again, utilitarianism