A. urinae and A. sanguinicola most often causes UTI in elderly patients with a median age around 75 years and with a tendency to female predominance (5, 15, 28, 49, 54, 68). Acute pyelonephritis in a 12-year-old-boy has also been reported (45).
The distinction between psychological egoism and ethical egoism reflects the contrast of is verses ought, fact verses value, or descriptive verses prescriptive.. 1  Psychological egoism is the empirical doctrine that the determining motive of every voluntary action is a desire for one's own welfare. In science, a purported law only needs one disconfirming instance to disprove it. 2  Psychological egoism makes no claim as to how one should act. 3  That all persons seek their self-interest on this theory is a purported fact, and this belief is viewed by the psychological egoist as nonmoral and verifiable.
Ethical egoism is the consequentialist philosophy which states that morality should be based on self-interest. It is the philosophical basis for many libertarians and (so they claim) Randroids but also got support from Thomas Hobbes..