If we are at least even a little bit Nietzschean then we cannot have such a deep problem with useful lies, now can we?
Also I didn’t lie, not even once. Just wanted to clear that up.
Ok, moving on.
It is not probably everyone, it is everyone.
, will ultimately not be able to resist VO–for such resistance is itself a form of the insistence which VO teaches. And as for those, if any, who can conceive such a life: what do they matter to us? We cannot even conceive them!
That isn’t the point, though. You are conflating two things here: That it is possible or impossible for someone to conceive of a life that does not follow self-valuing logic, and that it is possible or impossible for us to conceive of someone who is able or unable to conceive of a life that does not follow self-valugin logic. These are two different claims.
Claim 1: It is impossible for anyone to conceive of a life that does not follow self-valuing logic. <— ontological claim
Claim 2: It is impossible for us to conceive of someone who is able to conceive of a life that does not follow self-valuing logic, therefore such a person would not matter to us (because we cannot conceive of them). <— epistemological claim
I don’t really care about the second claim, the one you are making, at least I care about it a lot less than I care about the first claim, the ontological one. I care even less about conflating them with each other. Granted there is some small overlap in the form of the questions, which can make them both appear epistemological, but in fact only the second claim is truly epistemological while the former is strictly ontological.
If you seriously think that we are unable to ask direct ontological questions without also stipulation that “well it’s just that we can’t conceive of someone/something that would be the exception to this! Therefore we can’t really say there are no exceptions!” then I would suggest you aren’t actually doing philosophy – I don’t mean that as an insult, just an observation. Take it or leave it.
By the way, please explain what this phrase means to you: “insistence which VO teaches”. You used it twice, and I have no idea what you mean by it.