Selfish in sentence

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Therefore, it is all the more important to foster an altruistic motivation rather than a selfish one.

And first of all, does it exist, true altruism, or are we so selfish?

So some philosophers thought we were irredeemably selfish.

So now, this idea that if we go deep within, we are irredeemably selfish, this is armchair science.

And of course we are sometimes selfish, and some people more than others.

It's neither selfish nor altruistic.

You see, the Rawls definition, the Rawls way of looking at the world, the blind tasting approach, takes our selfish motivation out of the picture.

But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past.

A lot of people, and this includes everybody from philosophers and economists to ordinary people believe that human nature is fundamentally selfish, that we're only ever really motivated by our own welfare.

We became the very instrument through which more deaths occurred, complicit in causing further misery for the selfish benefit of the cruel few.

We need to do a much better job valuing these people as opposed to writing them off early, and saying, "Eh, kind of prickly, must be a selfish taker."

They're selfish information, they will get copied, if they can.

Because the temes are selfish replicators and they don't care about us, or our planet, or anything else.

Most of the time, countries still persist in behaving as if they were warring, selfish tribes battling against each other, much as they have done since the nation-state was invented hundreds of years ago.

Well, we all know people care deeply about what others think of them, that we try to be seen as generous and kind, and we try to avoid being seen as selfish or a mooch.

I mean, I'm not Mother Teresa, I'm still a selfish bastard a huge amount of the time.

I was very selfish, I know.

I partied a lot and was a pretty selfish guy.

You're great designers, but your designs are selfish.

I'm so nosy and selfish sometimes, those likely would have been my reasons if I'd been in her shoes.

And the primary buzzword when discussing childlessness, "That's selfish."

And it's, in a sense, the most selfish thing that we can do.

He told young people, "You're selfish for not having babies."

There are cruel, selfish people, and it's not only OK to be angry when we're treated poorly, it's right to be angry when we're treated poorly.

Keep in mind that, although it looks as if each individual is acting to cooperate, what's really going on is a kind of selfish Darwinian behavior.

We need noble researchers like Rick Doblin working on this, but we also need the selfish jerks who are way more numerous to appreciate the fact that acute suffering will soon endanger all of us, not just those afflicted.

I then began to feel a little selfish and say, what's the point of even trying to make the world a better place?

The third assumption, and by far the most pernicious, is a behavioral model that describes human beings as something called "homo economicus," which basically means that we are all perfectly selfish, perfectly rational and relentlessly self-maximizing.

But it is this behavioral model which is at the cold, cruel heart of neoliberal economics, and it is as morally corrosive as it is scientifically wrong because, if we accept at face value that humans are fundamentally selfish, and then we look around the world at all of the unambiguous prosperity in it, then it follows logically, then it must be true by definition, that billions of individual acts of selfishness magically transubstantiate into prosperity and the common good.

If we humans are merely selfish maximizers, then selfishness is the cause of our prosperity.

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