It's a problem that arises when self interests conflict in particular ways and interact with incentives in particular ways.
Self-interest conflicts painfully with a hip self-image.
What matters is that when self-interest conflicts with the motivation to be ethical, a person usually requires self-control in order to stick with the moral behavior.
This position is closely related to the claim that, when self-interest conflicts with moral requirements, neither alternative is irrational.
This is particularly evident at the United States Olympic Committee, where inept management has left the organization wallowing in self-interest, conflict of interest, petty turf battles, gridlock, lack of accountability and perpetual dysfunction.
Theologically, the social gospel has never quite escaped Reinhold Niebuhr's critique of liberal Protestant reform efforts as naïvely optimistic and sentimental about the force of love, unwilling to acknowledge the realities of self-interest, conflict, sin and tragedy.
In all of his novels – including Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas and Number9Dream – David Mitchell has been preoccupied with the differences between personal and planetary ethics: why does every human's self-interest conflict with the wider need for collective survival?
By making incomes partly dependent on patient compliance, pay for performance schemes bring a clinician's financial self interest into conflict with their duty not to pressure patients to accept medical advice.
If overall self-interest ever conflicts with moral requirements, then there will be overriding reason not to do what is morally required, on the assumption that all reasons are self-interested.
Customers do have self interests which may conflict with the organizational longer term objectives.
"Self interest will prevail.
