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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (98135)	3/15/2005 2:16:59 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Everything is inherently selfish. If you didn't like your approach yourself, it would not be your approach, but it is selfish because it IS your approach and it is what you want. My approach creates a world I think will be happier and safer- and that is essentially selfish, on my part, because I figure a happier safer world is a better world for me and my offspring. If I wasn't concerned with those things, I would probably come up with a different approach, equally selfish, to make the world the way I wanted it. Whether people realize it, or not, their approach to transforming the world through political choices and personal choices, is (imo) completely shaped by the selfish desire to have things a certain way. I don't see how you can get away from that. I was actually trying to say the same thing in my earlier posts, but I made a poor word choice with selfish- because that word has layers and layers to it. I guess people who want society to be better, and who want to spend a lot of their own money on it (and your money too, unless they are philanthropists) are perhaps a different flavor of selfish than people who don't want to spend money on anyone else (whoever those people happen to be)- but in the end I could argue that it is ALL selfishness of one kind or another.