EN_SELF-INTEREST20180312.20220813
If we observe life in nature, we easily come to believe that each individual, each plant or animal, exists and develops in accordance with its own interest. SELF-INTEREST is therefore an important general characteristic of living nature.
However, this characteristic does not exclude any group interest, such as the exchange of services, cooperation or even helping others, if the group interest is in line with the individual’s own interest. SELF-INTEREST is therefore a genetic trait cultivated by long-term evolution, and therefore should not be neglected in the assessment of any human activity.
It is a kind of universal lever for the development of living nature, but at the same time it becomes its limitation. In applying it to humans, I was therefore forced to specify this finding. After all, we are not guided by SELF-INTEREST, but by what we think is our SELF-INTEREST. And that, unfortunately, is not the same.