Word: self-interest
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...much for our self-interest," Oxman said. "We must also help Eastern Europe because it is right...
...just falling in with broad societal trends. We scorn religion, as Stephen Carter has recently written in A Culture of Disbelief. We are a "nation of victims" (Charles Sykes) that converses in "right talk" (Mary Ann Glendon). We live in a culture of entitlement with an ideology of self-interest that dupes us into ignoring what we know is right...
Dowds accused Reeves of disregarding the CCA platform, which Dowds described as a commitment "to putting the public interest ahead of self-interest, and cooperation in pursuit of the progressive agenda." The CCA platform also includes a stance against multiple terms for mayors...
...associates was killed, says rap felons are proof that "you can't sweep society's problem children under the rug. When you look under that rug you're gonna get blasted in your face." But Eazy-E, a former member of N.W.A., thinks that, if nothing else, self-interest ought to persuade them to cool ! off. "A lot of rappers are trying to live a fantasy," he says. "They have careers, and something stupid could end everything that's goin' good...
...observers, mainly underemployed scientists in the nuclear weapons industry, have suggested the immediate development of nukes to destroy incoming asteroids--weapons thousands of times more powerful than those we already have. An interesting idea, but likely laced with more than a little self-interest...