Like his fellow neoconservatives, he is a master of preying on the fears of the American population in order to goad them into doing things that are not in their nation's self-interest, based on carefully manipulated news and information.
People have different agendas for spilling secrets, some out of self-interest, others based on speaking their conscience.
A critical public health ethics approach can also illuminate a broader range of rationales for rich country action in fulfilling Millennium Development Goal 8: "A global partnership for development," such as equity and solidarity, and utilitarian self-interest arguments based on health, security or economic returns.
Democratic strategists have been segmenting the electorate and seeking individual self-interest-based issues in each electoral block.
It is impossible to envision an orderly world in which remains the accepted instrument of government and in which sixty or seventy nations each arrive independently at a clean, well-defined policy based on self interest.
The consumers, the hospitals and the businesses of those states are simply not going to tolerate their governors making a seriously bad decision based on self interest and politics".
Commentators note that Obama's principal African focus has been security, for example in combating Islamist militancy in Somalia, with pragmatism based on American self interest.
Ultimately, the functionality of Swedish housing is based on mutual self interest – renting or living in a communally owned house is popular.
And make no mistake about it: These subjective assumptions are not prompted from opinion, but from self-interest (and assumptions/ideology based on such self-interest is one of the foundational hallmarks of true propaganda).
Locke said we were obliged to help other human beings when one's own survival was not in competition, Kant called on us to treat people as ends-in-themselves rather than as mere instruments for one's self-interest, and Mill based his vigorous defense of individual rights on the broader social benefits of liberty.
Self interest, of course.
