self-benefit

Maybe as a lawyer and a politician he weighs everything in terms of self-benefit, but most doctors, in contrast, actually try to look out for our patients despite the profit or loss.

I Call Bullshit 1 Dinosaur 2009

A Hobbesian hypothetical bargainer will not make or keep contracts that do not provide an expectation of self-benefit.

Feminist Moral Psychology Superson, Anita 2009

Because humans, unlike ants, are individualistic, the loyalty of most humans usually lies with maximizing their own self-benefit.

Consider the Ant 2009

I enter a former bank (appropriate party venue during our economic tsores) amazed that tickets to this Museum of the Moving Image self-benefit/party/dinner cost $500 and $2500.

Susan Braudy: A Night In Tinseltown 2009

Such approach could be termed as practically adept and fruitful only if it refrains from the very ideals of politics for power and self-benefit, but solely intended for the good of the nation and its people.

Impasse Stalls Nepal���s New Government 2009

All types of people perform ethnocentric and discriminatory practices btw, some cynically for self-benefit, others out of ideology.

Who’s White Exercise (UPDATED AGAIN) 2006

But since we know that on the one hand most such behavior is carried out by people who are indeed religious on some level, and since I may follow moral strictures purely for self-benefit because I see how they can lead to harm to myself, can it be said that there is really meaningful sacrifice here?

Philocrites: Oppenheimer's definition of religion. 2006

Valerie Hudson argues that the shortage of females is not going to self-correct because the females and their parents can not leverage the scarcity of the females for self-benefit and so there is no market incentive to have more female children.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Chinese demographics and sex ratios: 2004

Valerie Hudson argues that the shortage of females is not going to self-correct because the females and their parents can not leverage the scarcity of the females for self-benefit and so there is no market incentive to have more female children.

The Volokh Conspiracy » 2004 » April 2004

As organized, systematic, and absolute frankness, besides self-benefit, would at once, as it were, take the wind out of our opponents 'saiils.

An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880