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Gniagnia Posted 20 years ago
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we deceive ourselves out of self-interest
Hello all,
Would you please help me to understand the following sentence :
"we deceive ourselves out of self-interest"
Thank you
Would you please help me to understand the following sentence :
"we deceive ourselves out of self-interest"
Thank you
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We trick/mislead/fool/delude ourselves because we wish to do so, because we feel that it is good for us .
- We trick/mislead/fool/delude ourselves because we wish to do so, because we feel that it is good for us .
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We trick/mislead/fool/delude ourselves because we wish to do so, because we feel that it is good for us.
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When we lie to ourselves, it is usually in order to avoid facing truths that makes us uncomfortable, or in order to create a distance from the self we're meant to know truthfully. Deceiving ourselves is considered as serving one's self-interest, usually in the pejorative sense of acting selfishly, in other words-- acting from basic animal compulsions. It's protective of superficial self-contentme
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