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The premise is that the people who don't co-operate with the communal needs of the state, are "scum of the earth" or "crop fertilizer" and they are portrayed as being selfish and undesirable murderers in the film and thus have to be 'weeded out'.
Joyce was always preoccupied with security, money and status; she is a selfish, manipulative social climber and we can readily see why David wants out.
Louise Closser Hale is perfectly cast as the controlling, selfish mother who sets the tone for her whole brood.
In the words of other characters in the movie, he is "selfish, self-centered, conceited and egotistical."
But the characters bring little sympathy as they are all flawed and selfish.
It is a wonderful movie, but I do find that Vickie (Jean Arthur), although wonderfully funny, was in reality quite a vixen and quite selfish in this version.
Maureen Lipmann's performance as the selfish, conceited head mistress is also very good.
It's no wonder they sent her off to boarding school and kept her less selfish brother around the ranch.
The primary problem is the unabashed worship of materialism - this show represents selfish, hateful, greedy and ignorant behaviour in much the same way loyalty, respect, dignity and love are represented in mainstream media.
But Smith stressed that private interests always pursue selfish interests:“To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers….The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention.
To the outside world as to its own citizens, the EU would look like a selfish, introspective club.
This agenda might seem selfish, though understandable from the point of view of an oil billionaire.
Earlier this year, the editor of Die Zeit , Josef Joffe, put his finger on the issue: like Jews, Americans are said to be selfish and arrogant.
Besides the standard selfish elements that define our preferences, they argue that people see themselves as members of “social categories” with which they identify.
Instead, strategies have been derived from the view that all our behaviors are selfish, with the intellectual challenge being to design “incentive-compatible” mechanisms or contracts, an effort that has also been recognized with Nobel Prizes.
When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the US in the 1830s, he observed that, both in public and private, Americans are able to overcome selfish desires, thus enabling both a self-conscious and active political society and a vibrant civil society.
They recognize, of course, the differences between a closed society, distorted by terror and misery, and an open society, distorted by selfish competition and trivial publicity.
Will the crisis lead to nationalistic and selfish attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic, stymieing the long-awaited rapprochement, if not a full reconciliation?
The temptation to “appease” suffering populations with populist, selfish measures may grow as the crisis deepens.
Selfish interests prevailed.
Europe’s selfish agricultural policies aggravate poverty in North Africa and the Middle East, where the population doubled to 350 million during the last 30 years and is forecast to more than double again by 2030.
Specifically, researchers have already created “engineered selfish genes” that spread themselves automatically in two insect species.
True, parents are generally not selfish.
Likewise, the current period in America and its relations with the world have been truly exceptional, requiring a leader who can fundamentally challenge a global majority’s view that America has become arrogant, impotent, and selfish.
There are clear risks for the US if it is too easily tempted to block access to the dollar in defense of interests that appear selfish or parochial.
Delay for either of these reasons would be a very selfish act.
Nonetheless, this selfish approach to the climate challenge does have its limits, especially at the beginning.
Building a Caring EconomyDAVOS – Today’s mainstream economic models are based on two fundamental assumptions: first, humans are essentially selfish actors who act rationally to advance their own utility – so-called homo economicus; but, second, as Adam Smith’s metaphor of an “invisible hand” was intended to suggest, self-regarding behavior can inadvertently advance the common good.
After all, living in a world that assumes we are homo economicus can encourage selfish habits.
The actors in the Spanish drama are facing what political scientists call a social dilemma: either side gains from selfish behavior unless the other side behaves selfishly, too, in which case both sides lose.
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