soft-belief

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• 2020-10-21
  
  • A lot of this is rooted in my [[soft belief]] that everything everyone does is for selfish reasons, but selfish is not really the right word because it has such a negative connotation. When someone writes an answer on stack overflow, I would say it's a selfish act - it benefits them. And even if they claim they aren't doing it for boost in reputation, they will likely say they enjoyed writing the answer. Which also means they did it because they enjoyed it.. still selfish, but again, not in the negative sense. Either way, it does help others and that's ultimately a great thing. Healthy selfish should be a thing we think about. Is there a word for that?

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