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Quicksilver wrote

On the arguement specifically, if you believe that, well...I dunno, it doesn't change much if your right or wrong. Whether people acting "good" is a selfish or selfless act, they are still acting "good", so the arguement to me seems rather pointless (except, like, if you really care about someone's intentions over the consequence of said intentions, but you'd really only care about that on an individual level, and not on the whole of humanity).

Now, do I think that? Not really. I mean, as social animals, we have a self interest in surviving and thriving, biologically and socially, so I'm sure their are mechanisms that are in place that nudge us towards altruism for the sake of surviving. But I wouldn't pass moral judgment on that with the term selfish.

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