Word: self-interest
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Animals have the right to be free of extreme cruelty, and that right is currently protected by law. Farmers, of all people, respect these rights, both out of economic self-interest and a familiarity gained from long association. Animal rights advocates see certain practices as intrinsically wrong, and justify their beliefs with arguments no more (or less) valid than those of religious devotees who eschew the killing of certain creatures, but which are wholly subjective. These activists would like, through Question 3, to become the ethical decision makers for all of us. With the power of government and lawsuit behind...
...broader challenge will be to convince voters that giving to the poor doesn't mean robbing the middle class; in fact, easing poverty contributes to the strength of a society. Alexis de Toqueville wrote that the community's interest is really just "self-interest properly understood." Americans must come to realize that is ultimately in their own interest to make society more equitable...
Botha also pledged South Africa's help in restarting Mozambique's giant Cahora Bassa hydroelectric-power dam project, whose transmission lines have been repeatedly sabotaged by the Renamo insurgents since the facility was built in 1975. That promise showed both neighborliness and self-interest, since the dam's chief customer will be South Africa. Altogether, the encounter may have reflected a new willingness on the part of Pretoria to pursue conciliatory policies toward its black neighbors abroad while continuing to crack down on opponents of apartheid at home...
...explains a durable adviser. But eight years of smile-button politics leave a heavy burden for those who would follow, Democrat or Republican. No matter how intractable the problems, the American people have come to expect can-do homilies from their President. Any honest talk about sacrifice or yielding self-interest to the common interest is as politically dubious as repeating Jimmy Carter's malaise speech. During the primaries, candidates of both parties who tried cold candor encountered glacial resistance. Reagan has redefined the presidency into a cheerful con game that works best when the man in the Oval Office...
...Each party is obliged to do a pretty thoroughjob of looking. It seems as though it runs againstyour own self-interest to do a good job," Nessonsaid, adding that he is currently litigating acase in which the opposing lawyer withhelddocuments until after the verdict was announced."You often can't tell if failures to produce aretrue oversights or some measure of studiedoversight...