Ethics and Values / Unit 3 Ethics 108 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Selfish vs. Self-Interested
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The idea
Self-interested is not selfish: selfishness ignores others' interests when they are genuinely at stake; ordinary self-care tramples nobody.
In practice
Eating lunch and getting a checkup serve yourself and wrong no one. Taking a colleague's lunch is where the other word starts.
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