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...Kumaratunga, who made initial peace moves in the 1980s and 1990s, from any role in the negotiations. "At most times, I came to know of decisions on defense matters after they were taken and only from the media," complained Kumaratunga in her second national address. "Ranil is also very selfish," says Jehan Perera of the National Peace Council, a Colombo-based independent NGO. "He didn't support her when she tried to make some good changes when her government was in power. He also wants power for himself...
Private owners often put big cats in even more stressful environments. Backyards--let alone cages or apartments--are terribly claustrophobic for tigers. "What do you do if it's sick?" asks Lattis. "What if you get tired of it? It's a selfish, self-centered way of treating animals." Along with other conservationists, he dismisses the notion that tiger owners are somehow saving an endangered species. "These animals are never going to be returned to the wild, and they couldn't survive there anyway. Conservation isn't simply about having more tigers. It's about having more tigers in their...
Meanwhile, at other schools, there is still the specter of conservatism. The specter looms, not because students of this generation are more selfish, but because they are unwilling to support a moral hierarchy that devalues their own blameless aspirations...
...consultants because it’s evil, or because you’re “selling out to the man,” or because you’re participating in a system of corporate global hegemony. Leave ethics out of it. You should avoid these jobs for selfish reasons...
...boils down to what we learned in Ec 10—the class that teaches us not only how to be more selfish, but how to justify it. One of the first things that the Arbiter of Objectivity himself, Marty Feldstein, taught us was that, in every choice we make in life, we must make a cost-benefit analysis. We make hundreds of cost-benefit analyses every day, weighing options as small as sleeping in rather than making that 10 a.m. section to options as large as going to Wall Street rather than taking a lower-paying, but more fulfilling...