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Master_Shake, you write that good is just looking out for your own interests. This isn't quite the way I'd put it. I'd say that the Good is, in fact, in your interest, but that there is more to say about the Good than simply that it is just looking out for your own interests. Let me put it this way; a lot of religious people, both Christian and non-Christian, have said over the years that, while it is in your interest to seek the good, you will not find the good merely by seeking whatever you think your own interests are. Assuming these people have some insight into what the good is, this means it's just too simplistic to say that good is just looking out for your own interests.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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