Moralists are rarely skeptics of moralism, but true believers. They don't want less moralism; they want a perfect moralism: a science of morality.
When I was younger (early to mid-20s) I had trouble distinguishing between being intelligent and being able to get what I wanted. This is one of the things I'm most ashamed of (deploying cleverness on behalf of excuse-making, self-justification, selfishness, even laziness).
Hegel thought the ascetic life of renunciation was a form of “repugnant narcissism.” Nietzsche agreed with this and went even further and said that Jesus was a great egoist…