Consensual selfishness (agreeing to ‘use’ one another) highlights an unexpected limit of honesty as a social contract. Although it may allow us to fulfil the duty of not being a cheat or a swindler, and although it acknowledges each individual’s right to self-govern, it still objectifies the Other and thus denies them their humanness. A more beautiful measure then is not between deception and honesty, but between hostility and hospitality.
