“I have trouble getting myself doing the right thing, focusing on what selfish reasons I have to do it helps.” sounds entirely socially reasonable to me. Maybe that’s just because we here believe that picking and choosing what x=selfish arguments to listen to is not aligned with x=selfishness.
“I have trouble getting myself doing the right thing, focusing on what selfish reasons I have to do it helps.” sounds entirely socially reasonable to me. Maybe that’s just because we here believe that picking and choosing what x=selfish arguments to listen to is not aligned with x=selfishness.
This is a beautifully succinct way of phrasing it. I still have enough deontologist in me to feel a little dirty every time I do it though!