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A brilliant and masterful exposition on self interest and selflessness. Thank you!

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Thank you, Daniel.

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In a society one must interact with other individuals to get anything done. This is most difficult if they don't know and pursue their interests.

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Correct.

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A man that has no virtue in himself, always envies virtue in others…He who minds his own business cannot find much to envy.

-Bacon, On Envy

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Education seems to be designed to sever people from any conception of pursuing their own rational and moral self-interest in favour of worshipping phantoms that manifest in the form of imaginary victim groups whose vampiric infinite pathos drains the soul , rendering the young into ineffective, passive, husks, easily manipulated.

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One of the facts that accompanies human psychology is that a sense of pleasure, satisfaction, and well-being arises when one acts in pursuit/preservation of what one has determined to be of value. Such an aspect of human nature logically renders the importance of what one chooses to value to be critical. It is why, for example, one can easily become "addicted" to altruistic acts in spite of altruisms inherent contradiction - i.e., altruism and "self"-interest.

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