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There is a philosophical theory that talks about men’s reasons for doing everything called psychological selfishness. It states that every choice is made towards someone’s personal profit either direct or indirectly. It is mostly based on opinions on all actions.

Some are easily spotted as being for someone’s own profit. However some aren’t as easily spotted and those who believe in this theory are though to be cynical.
Here are some examples (the last are a bit harder to see):

-John is in a school in which test are much harder than in all other. He had a physics test on Monday in which he cheated and the grade he’ll have will decide whether he’ll be on the 50 chosen applicants for his college degree. He simply cheated a bit, no one came out of it harmed, he saved a little work and no even the teacher was upset (what she doesn’t know can’t hurt her).Right? Wrong! Rick who is also running for that same spot didn’t make it. Why? Because though he was in a school just as hard he figured he’d be better prepared and because he was more decent he decided not to cheat since he knew he could leave that particular school at any time!

-Jennifer who’s absolutely loathed by Maria (the most popular girl in school) is the only daughter of a famous businessman. She is therefore considerably richer than Maria who’s the youngest daughter of a mason. Their allowances are 120$ and 20$ respectively. For her birthday Jen gave Maria a 200$ check in front of all the guests.
Why would she do that? Simply because she’d benefit! Maria would like her quite a lot better after that astonishing present getting Jen a new status quo at school.

-Susan is a girl scout and ,not because her parents make her do it or for any other reason other than because she wants to, she spends 4 weakly hours in a retirement home near her house, helping the elderly. How can such an altruistic attitude be thought of selfish? Well, according to Emmanuelle Kant an action is only truly good if it motivated by a sense of self-sacrifice and let’s face it, no one is actually willing to do it. The true reasons of her trips to the retirement home are either the fact that she likes the smiles on their faces (which is not altruistic), she wants her efforts to be recognised or (the truly hidden reason, and the most common) she doesn't want to have a heavy conscience!