Word: selfishnesses
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From an impersonal, universal perspective this sounds unfair and selfish. Why is one person worthy of care that another is denied? Isn't it all just accidental? Well, yes. A family (or a state) is, like everything human, finite entity whose attention and resources can only be expended on a limited number of people...
...fact, it sounds cold-blooded. But if someone disregarded the welfare of her family by adopting dangerous or infectious homeless strangers, her commitment to abstract fairness and compassion would require a corresponding callousness to her already existing dependents. We might well call this single-minded idealism cold-blooded-- a selfish sentimentality, if you will...
Seberg too creates a slightly off-kilter heroine. With her cherubic looks and clumsy accented French, she fits the part of the ingenue, but there's a hard, selfish edge to her character that makes this innocence seem more than a little put on. She keeps checking her fetching looks in mirrors...
...much that we're selfish or shortsighted; it may be more that we believe our neighbors are -- and we'll be damned if we make sacrifices if they...
...abuse is not perpetrated by a country against its colonies, but rather the oldest generation against the youngest--being pitted against each other by the slightly over the hill people on the Hill. I am not willing to lie down and have my rights violated by a bunch of selfish, toothless, gray-hairs. Of course, with the amount of money they're pilfering from the national trust, I'm sure they can afford stylish hair dye and super-adhesive dentures, especially since the rest of us pick...