Word: self-interest
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Jackson acknowledged that while governments may at times be forced to protect themselves from the pure self-interest of companies, under the right circumstances those same companies can be constructive...
...talking enlightened self-interest here," Jeffrey told me. "This guy's great copy, even when he goes to China to hide out. We can't afford to let him go back to Georgia. Think of what would have happened if we really hadn't had Nixon to kick around anymore after his defeat in California in 1962. Think of the book advances lost. Think of the depleted lecture fees...
LaFollette strongly encouraged people to do what they felt is better in the long run for the environment instead of allowing big businesses that are guided by self-interest to lead them astray...
...applies to sexual orientation; this policy must be applied to all Harvard institutions. Second, it should keep in mind the moral character of the student protest in favor of gay ceremonies. Students advocating the introduction of such ceremonies do so out of a sense of fairness, not simply self-interest...
...evil of multiculturalism. Even people who only made it to the debate on the morality of selfishness last December 10 heard Professor Harry Binswanger lay out a detailed chain of reasoning to establish that by virtue of the facts of reality and of human nature, the pursuit of rational self-interest is the moral ideal whose political corollary is a free society in which the individual rights are inviolate. In short, the individual lectures as well as the series as a whole were intended to present to the Harvard community some idea of the scope and content of Ayn Rand...