Politicians, who have become the driving force behind educational initiatives, have long-term, altruistic objectives, don't they?
While they both have somewhat altruistic objectives, Facebook's Connectivity Lab could compete with Google's Project Loon, which uses huge helium balloon vessels to beam Internet to the developing world.
Moreover, while you as the leader are driven to succeed and may have virtuous and altruistic objectives, ultimately you stand to gain financially when others help you achieve your goals, so you cannot be disingenuous in at least recognizing that others may have their own reasons for participating in your adventure.
There's no altruistic aim here.
However, it could also plausibly be argued that NGOs, who though objective and altruistic, may, in fact, have quite complex motives.
Noncancerous cells are programmed for a multicellular lifestyle and will thus act altruistically for the benefit of the host, but cancer cells (which share the same signalling pathways) have the ability to manipulate these altruistic cells for selfish objectives.
Key issues for valuation of reduced air toxics risks include what benefits to value, whether altruistic values should be included, whether to value subjective or objective risks, and whether valuation results could be applied to different policies (Cropper and Krupnick 2009).
But as pointed by Fernando Nivia (Morazán et al. 2011: 24), Latin American development providers tend to exaggerate altruistic discourse when in reality SSC clearly underlines foreign policy objectives.
Our objective is to formulate a more realistic utility model that captures altruistic motivations.
The attribution that these missions are charitable and altruistic and thereby valid in their own right may interfere with the inclination for data collection and objective analysis [ 62].
Unlike related work in this area, our objective is not to optimize the performance of the system but to formulate a realistic economic model capturing altruistic motivations.
