Word: self-interest
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Such is the effect of an American foreign policy that sees the national interest as the self-interest which is good for business. In return for China's yuan, the United States will place its abuse of human rights on the back burner. The Clinton Administration perpetuates Sino-American trade even at the cost of Tibetan repression, the suppression of free thought and the jailing of dissidents. Dollars come before democracy when the pair cannot be promoted together...
...think that someone spending millions of dollars of their own money to promote themselves is not a threat to the ability of the rest of us to have our own voices heard shows us how far self-interest has come in American politics." Bradley responded...
...term divestment, which has gained such an altruistic connotation following the University's financial pullout from South Africa, is now being exploited for self-interest. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But let's understand that these people who tout the lofty goal of a better city have no higher motives than does Harvard, or any other corporation...
Election law as it stands reinforces the existing power structure. It is clearly in the self-interest of current political leaders to oppose any major change. But if the American people seek a third option to provide them with the vision and unity that the other two parties lack, our government should not stand...
This points to the most ironic of evolutionary psychology's implications: many of the impulses created by natural selection's ruthless imperative of genetic self-interest aren't selfish in any straightforward way. Love, pity, generosity, remorse, friendly affection and enduring trust, for example, are part of our genetic heritage. And, oddly, some of these affiliative impulses are frustrated by the structure of modern society at least as much as the more obviously "animal" impulses. The problem with modern life, increasingly, is less that we're "oversocialized" than that we're undersocialized--or, that too little of our "social" contact...