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Preview: ... need to have it if only for a moment. So the main conflict with this overall system is that ethical egoists pursuing their self interest disregard those of others. Another problem with this egoist theory is the situations where it cannot be applied. There are times where people must perform actions that are not necessarily in their self interest, and therefore are not moral according to ethical egoism. For example, when one person fills the duties of their position in office it does not always involve actions that are considered beneficial to that person. A third main problem with this concept is that in order for people to be strong ethical egoists, they would do everything in their own self interest and want everyone else to be altruistic. It is obvious that things do not work this way. In fact, as stated previously, the world seems to operate in the universal version of ethical egoism. This is the thought that people try to be completely self beneficial but, at the same time, they want everyone else to be fighting for the same goal. <br> Psychological egoism, the concept that people indeed do things for their personal benefit, branches off the more general idea of ethical egoism. It also seems to be more practical than the idea of ethical egoism. Psychological egoism can be applied to various other theories and models such as the Social Darwinist theory. This theory states that all organisms innately do their best to survive, much like the idea that people do what is within their self interest. Another example of psychological egoism applications is to how international policy is often handled. Most countries act to better their economic, social, or political ...

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