"I admit, it was for my self-interest," Mr. Singson said.
I had recently concluded that the war was unconscionable, thereby conveniently reinforcing my self-interest with morality, not for the last time.
"You might say it's against my self-interest to say it, but I think that, in the near term, talking about carbon removal is silly," David Keith, the founder of Carbon Engineering, who teaches energy and public policy at Harvard, told me.
Among those promises: "I vow to at least attempt to stop putting paper towels into the recycling bin, even though it's confusing because of the word 'paper,' " and "I vow to see what the relationship needs and to look deeper than my self-interests".
But say I am wrong: the action is in my self-interest.
Finally, if I do not believe that some action is ultimately in my self-interest, it follows from psychological egoism that I cannot aim to do it.
One correlate term worth noting here is 'self-interest': my self-interest is what is in the interest of myself, and not others.
I both claim that B ought to go to the game, since that is in her self-interest, and I do not want B to go to the game, since B's going to the game is against my self-interest.
Alison Hills, in 2010 parts II and III (directed at rational egoism), replies to (a) that moralists can assure themselves by giving arguments that start from premises like "I have a reason to help regardless of whether doing so contributes to my self-interest," provided this premiss is not inferred from the falsity of rational egoism — perhaps it is self-evident.
It's against my self-interest".
All I can do--what I ought to do--is vote my self-interest.
