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Realists preach humility and prudence, which idealists dismiss as complacency and selfishness.
In the liberal Guardian , foreign affairs columnist Martin Woollacott said Republican senators "sent out a dismal message--of American selfishness, American foolishness, and American readiness to put her own safety first, whatever the consequences for the rest of us."
Sheehy's faith in change and redemption reflects an Oprah-esque optimism about human malleability, whereas F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of an egotist whose selfishness wrecks her life and the lives of everyone around her reeks of dourness.
You may doubt that natural selection, a process that supposedly maximizes genetic selfishness, could fail so abjectly to do so.
On this view, Harris' mistake is not that he focuses too much on selfishness, but that he neglects it.