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If you eat when you are hungry you are selfish.
by codezero 6y ago
If you eat when you are hungry you are selfish.
- StanislavPetrov 6y agoIronically your trite answer exposes the substance-free nature of this argument. If eating when you are hungry makes you selfish, then what is your anti-selfishness re-education supposed to accomplish? Are you going to stop eating? Defining "selfishness" in such an absurd, all-encompassing manner renders the term itself meaningless. This sort of mania reminds me very much of the idea of "original sin" put forth by the Catholic Church. You can spend your life repenting, but you can never wipe away the stain on your soul! Reasonable people can skip this sort of faith-based nonsense by avoiding church but its becoming more and more difficult for reasonable people to avoid this kind of nonsense at it seeps into the workplace and every other facet of society.
- codezero 6y agoMy point is that all people are selfish in some way and that is ok and natural.
- codezero 6y agoIf you disagree we might be using the word selfish to mean different things. That’s also possible, and normal, these conundrums can only be discovered and addressed with communication, and a willingness to listen.
- StanislavPetrov 6y agoYea, that or a dictionary.
- lliamander 6y agoI don't think it's correct or helpful to use the term "selfish" to describe rationally self-interested behavior which does not impinge upon the needs of others.
- codezero 6y agoThat’s semantics.
- lliamander 6y agoThat's equivocation.