So selfish elements should be welcomed in such lineages if evolvability is a net benefit.

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Why should we wear a hair shirt for people just as greedy and selfish as so many critics portray the West to be?

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Nor do we automatically hate the family or regard them as selfish and mendacious and so on.

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So speaking personally, from a purely selfish perspective, I want house prices to fall.

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By that logic, all love is essentially selfish, because we love so we can live and leave a legacy.

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My reasons are not so much civic as dramatic -- that is, selfish.

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So the PD (by its Italian initials) is also viewed as selfish by the public, neutralizing Berlusconi's disadvantage on that measure.

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So the notion of "Homo economicus, " schooled by capitalism to be shortsightedly selfish, is these days something of a straw man ("Homo stramineus"?).

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What we really want is not selfish self-consciousness but selfless spontaneity, and the reason why purpose is so motivating is it draws us up and out of ourselves to a place where we escape our petty prison of selfishness.

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