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59 Post author: Psychohistorian 23 December 2009 06:34AM

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Comment author: cabalamat 23 December 2009 09:23:35PM 8 points [-]

OK, so my favorite man-with-a-hammer du jour is the "everyone does everything for selfish reasons" view of the world. If you give money to charity, you do it for the fuzzy feeling, not because you are altruistic.

That's not a disagreement about the nature of the world, it's a disagreement about the meaning of the word "altruistic".