Assertion: selfishness | /r/HasProperty | natural
Facets:
value: to wanting to be happy
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Through a close reading of her fictional characters, and other entries in her journal, it appears that Rand had an intuitive sense that selfishness was natural because that’s how she saw the world.
text: Selfishness is a natural sin.
text: Selfishness is a natural response to wanting to be happy.
text: The defunct economist in this case is Milton Friedman, who persuaded a generation that selfishness was the natural state of humanity and that selfishness ultimately would lead to the best possible society, when all the empirical data shows exactly the opposite: that people are capable of prosociality and that pro-social societies do better," Lynn Stout, a professor of economics at Cornell,
text: Selfishness is natural Over time people were made to be selfish because of their desire to live.