Word: selfishness
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...fact, only those students who recognize this obligation, who feel honor-bound to pay their share, would have any reason to oppose raising a voluntary fee. Refusing to pay the higher term-bill fee would hurt student groups, not the decisionmakers. The staff should never promote such a selfish type of protest...
...shame that the campus conversation on the issue is void of any moral or philosophical commentary. In essence, the HASCS decisions to limit outbound traffic and erect a firewall establish Harvard as a parasitic user of the Internet, explicitly taking more that it gives. Not only is this inherently selfish, it betrays the promise of the Internet. As more users ignore the implications and follow suit, the Internet risks transformation into a one-way stream from content providers to content consumers, rather than the rich network of information exchange it could be. Harvard has the resources and prestige to make...
...perfection and control that they imagine cloning offers will be the least able to cope with a malformed, sickly or disabled child, which is a not an unlikely outcome. I fear that human cloning could create a third class of humans--the unwanted, imperfect results of people's ultimately selfish act of attempting to reproduce themselves. Society could face a grave problem with how to care for such individuals. DORIS ULLMAN-HINDRICHS Lynden...
...upper lip, drop into Jacky's once in a while to score some drugs. Or they'll buy a couple of tablets from Bing's mother, who deals. But they tell you they're different from Bing and the hard-core users. "For one thing," Big alibies, "Bing's selfish. That's how people get when they smoke too much yaba. He loves himself because he's high all the time...
...Well, you're missing out on a great thing there. You guys have got to get past what you think is disgusting and what you think you can't do. I'm not sure how capable our generation is going to be. A lot of us are way too selfish to do that. But we're going to face it, like...