Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect. - Jack Vance

You espouse a very popular doctrine, ethical pragmatism, which always turns out to be the doctrine of self-interest.

“We suspect that telepathy occurs instantaneously, if no faster—”
“How could anything be faster than instantaneously?” Margaret inquired.
“It could arrive before it started. In which case it’s called precognition.”
“Oh.”
“In any event it seems that thought is a different stuff from our usual matter, that it obeys different laws, acts through a different medium, in a different dimension set, in short, works through a different space—implying a different universe.”
Tarbert frowned. “You’re getting a little carried away; you’re using the word ‘thought’ rather too easily. After all, what is ‘thought’? So far as we know, it’s a word to describe a complex of electrical and chemical processes in our brains, these more elaborate, but intrinsically no more mysterious, than the operation of a computer. With all the goodwill and predisposition in the world, I can’t see how ‘thought’ can work metaphysical miracles.”

“I learned a great deal,” said Beran. “And then I lost all heart for further learning.”
Palafox’s eyes glinted. “Education is not achieved through the heart—it is a systematization of the mental processes.”
“But I am something other than a mental process,” said Beran. “I am a man. I must reckon with the whole of myself.”