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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (61196)	10/4/2002 6:56:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"changing the idea from acting in your own self interest ...to principles that generally support your self interest." I don't see the difference. I always thought it was about principles. The difference is between 1 - Having self interest as your principle and 2 supporting principles which generally work in your self interest. They are similar but not the same thing. If you consistantly support a principle that normally works in your self interest then you will still support it when it does not work in your self interest enlightened or otherwise. " it certainly would not be in his self interest if everyone acted like that. " So people acting in their enlightened self interest model the sort of behavior they want to encourage in society, lest they give aid and comfort to the enemy. But I'm not sure how my example would be one where that behavior would be encouraged in society. If you stole $25k from Bill Gates, and not even he realized the money was stolen because of the cleverness of your scheme, and you don't brag about your success how does it encourage anyone (except perhaps you) to steal in the future? Tim