My Human Emperor Banner Keeps Belching Black Smoke

Loyalty, devotion, kindness, and selflessness: I admit they're all supreme virtues, but only when it comes to other people.

How is my selfishness toward others not selflessness toward myself? How is my ruthlessness toward others not kindness toward myself?

My greedy plundering of all things in the world is nothing but selfless devotion to myself.

I betrayed my sect and turned against my master and ancestors for no reason other than my absolute loyalty to myself!