Word: selfishnesses
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With such a multimotivated triad producing a wealth of wonders, it is no surprise that medicine's great advance has been at once high-minded and profit-minded, selfless and selfish, inspired and pragmatic, sublime and boorish. With its emphasis on technology, the juggernaut of medical science has often strained and frayed the traditional personal bond between doctor and patient. It has presented medicine with a tangle of ethical dilemmas, bringing moral implications ever closer to daily life--and death. And, if that were not enough, it confronts society and government with the urgent problem of just...
...outraged that the AFL-CIO has the audacity to compare its selfish and destructive union-organizing campaign with the civil rights "Freedom Summer" of 1964 [BUSINESS, July 15]. Labor unions are a dinosaur. In the first part of the century they were a necessary evil, but they are no longer needed. The AFL-CIO should accept the fact that it is an anachronism and drift quietly into obscurity. Unions, while preaching the altruistic intent of helping the low-skilled worker, actually cause fewer jobs suitable for such workers to be created. ELIJAH C. MARENTETTE Boston
...have parents who are, as they say, dysfunctional--in this case, needy, infantile, self-indulgent, narcissistic, ruthlessly selfish hysterics who use up all the oxygen in the room and then gasp self-pityingly that they are having trouble breathing--is a maturing burden for a child, and a sad kind of discipline...
...baffles my imagination that Americans can so distrust an individual and yet prepare themselves to cast their vote for him. To be sure, Dole is partly responsible for a poorly-run campaign. But it is my hope that America has not sacrificed its moral fortitude in the selfish hope that partisanship and political efficiency--and here, Clinton's administration hardly is at home--ought to be given greater importance than a candidate's core integrity. Trust has formed the core of our nation since its inception and we must not allow it to fall to the wayside in favor...
...Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f----ing big television...Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows...Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f----ed-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves...But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin...