I like it, but I don't know where we'd be without our egos - much good work would never get accomplished. I, for one, would be worthless without ego. My favori

I like it, but I don't know where we'd be without our egos - much good work would never get accomplished. I, for one, would be worthless without ego. My favorite "guiding principle," when faced with a tough question, however politically incorrect it may be, is: "Don't be a jackass." I think the connotation captures a good number of the edge cases in scads of morally ambiguous situations.