Imagine that it is Valentine’s Day, and you want to do something special for your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife. Let’s say you go all out – spend a lot of money on roses, chocolates, gifts, and plan to spend even more on dinner at an upscale restaurant. You take great pains to make sure everything will go smoothly. You wear your finest, memorize a love poem, and save for months just to afford these extravagant gestures of love. Now imagine that you show up at the house of your sweetheart, knock on the door, roses and chocolates in hand, and he or she opens the door with a look of disgust on their face and says: “You selfish pig. Just like you to think only of yourself on Valentine’s Day!” They slam the door in your bewildered face. We know that this imagined scenario exemplifies the concept of Psychological Egoism. Do you think Psychological Egoism is true? Do we always act in our own self-interest? Explain your response and offer support for your claim.
Imagine that it is Valentine’s Day, and you want to do something special for your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife. Let’s say you go all out – spend a lot of money on roses, chocolates, gifts, and plan to spend even more on dinner at an upscale restaurant. You take great pains to make sure everything will go smoothly. You wear your finest, memorize a love poem, and save for months just to afford these extravagant gestures of love. Now imagine that you show up at the house of your sweetheart, knock on the door, roses and chocolates in hand, and he or she opens the door with a look of disgust on their face and says: “You selfish pig. Just like you to think only of yourself on Valentine’s Day!” They slam the door in your bewildered face. We know that this imagined scenario exemplifies the concept of Psychological Egoism. Do you think Psychological Egoism is true? Do we always act in our own self-interest? Explain your response and offer support for your claim.
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