Word: selfishnesses
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...work of their tormentors, and because those deprived of their humanity could be tortured and killed without unduly disturbing the sensibilities of their murderers. Levi's logic leads him to burdensome conclusions, not the least of which is that the saved were not the best but the worst, "the selfish, the violent, the insensitive, the collaborators of the 'gray zone.' " Levi's troubled honesty is not what usually gets hailed as a triumph of the human spirit. His work dispels such cliches: it is a victory, against great odds, for the preservation of memory...
Nowadays too many people are saying that college students are apathetic, that they are interested only in selfish self-indulgent pursuits and have no cause to struggle for. But once we recognize that the satisfaction of our primal urges is our primary responsibility to society, I say that we will have a cause to struggle for--the liberation of our society from its patriarchal, heterocentric, food-ist, fecaphobic capitalism...
Like all freedoms, though, this one has been abused by some to further their own, selfish ends. Take condom manufacturers. All of a sudden it's acceptable for condoms to be advertised on television and in full-page newspaper ads. Johnny Carson can make jokes about them and get laughs in Middle America. AIDS hysteria has been a Trojan Horse, if you will, through which the marketing gurus of the prophylactic industry have boosted public acceptance and sales of their product...
...child limit in 1979. Today, of the 337 million Chinese children under 14, 30 million are without siblings. These children, called "little emperors" by the local press, have been swaddled in the love of their parents and grandparents; as a result, many Chinese fear, they are growing up spoiled, selfish and lazy. "The child cares about getting love from others but not for giving it to others," observes Chinese Youth magazine...
Union leaders probably would have been wise to delay the strike until the World Series was over. Still, selfish players, such as Mark Gastineau of the Jets and Lawrence Taylor of the Giants--who couldn't comprehend the union's earlier efforts in their ability to sign mega-contracts and bolted the picket lines--need to be faulted for disrupting union solidarity and making it impossible for the Player's Association to stand together through the winter...