From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-02-02, D  wrote:   
      
   > Hmm, maybe ego is not the right word. What about egoism   
   > coupled with short-sightedness? A long-sighted egoist   
   > should rationally do good things, since he realises that   
   > it will benefit him in the end. The one who does not look   
   > ahead, and craves instant gratification, that one can be   
   > really destructive.   
      
   Hard to say due, well, misrepresentation. See also: lying.  To me   
   most of what appears to be good in the human realm is what appears to   
   be individuals - which is rather synonymous to "egos" to me - who've   
   essentially lost their individuality, leaving a more spontaneous   
   behavior in accord with what's left sans the ego veneer. Beneath   
   that, there are individuals/egos "putting on a good show" when   
   others are looking/present (but, of course, that show is rooted in   
   self-interest/gain), and then "all out" individuals/egos incapable   
   of seeing the value in the aforementioned pretense, thereby becoming   
   a-social/anti-social in ways the others find necessary to attempt   
   to attenuate via laws, law enforcement, prisons, etc.   
      
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