Word: selfishnesses
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...crowned two months ahead of last year’s schedule. Though we understand the desire of many states—especially large ones—to have more say in the process of choosing nominees, they are making the wrong decision in moving their primaries forward. Their selfish decisions not only disenfranchise smaller states, but they vitiate the entire electoral process. We hope that at least some states reconsider. The primary election process has traditionally been the way in which candidates were introduced to and vetted by their constituencies. Candidates could make well-considered decisions to enter the presidential...
...film’s real problem is Charles Farmer. Farmer is neither despicable nor compelling; he’s not much of anything. His desire for space travel seems selfish. If the film had dwelt in this complexity, it might have been a different (and better) production, but it avoids conflict at all costs. He displays no keen intelligence, and the lackluster treatment of his time in space ensures that even his dream seems hollow...
...only do Cusk’s characters suffer, but they make no efforts to change or improve their situations. Cusk offers harsh discouragement to every member of her audience: children, you are nasty little terrors who make your mothers’ lives miserable; husbands, you are irresponsible and selfish ogres who enslave your wives and smother their souls; wives and mothers, you are the wretched of the earth, condemned to a pathetic and pitiable existence.“Arlington Park” is an unbalanced novel that lacks the small moments of comic relief necessary for a really good read...
...Greene's work in arguing that we should re-examine our moral intuitions and ask not just whether these impulses still serve their original evolutionary logic, but whether that logic merits respect in the first place. Why obey moral impulses that evolved to serve what Richard Dawkins calls the "selfish gene"--such as sympathy that gravitates toward kin and friends? Why not worry more about people an ocean away whose suffering we could cheaply alleviate? Isn't it better to save 10 starving African babies than to keep your 90-year-old father on life support...
...BITTER LESBIAN AND A SELFISH PEDOPHILE: WHY DID YOU WANT TO PLAY THESE PEOPLE...