Why is it GOOD to be selfish? #realitycheck #selfishness

Why is embracing your own interests a bad thing? Mark Pellegrino explains how being selfish means choosing things which are in your long-term best interests, and things that we sometimes think of as selfish aren't good for us at all.

0:00 Selfishness
0:22 Why is embracing your own interests a bad thing?
0:42 Blame it on religion
1:23 Blame it on science
2:33 What if religion and science are both wrong?
2:53 Reasoning consciousness
3:18 Life is a long-term project
3:40 Almost everything we think of as selfish is bad for us

'For human beings life itself is not an immediate challenge, but a long term project. Almost all of what lies in our selfish interests is in the long term and what one usually defines as sin or animal nature – the source of all that agita about selfishness — is really just a disavowal of this fact.'

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Mark Pellegrino is a successful actor who appeared in Lost, Supernatural, Being Human, 13 Reasons Why, American Rust, The Closer, The Tomorrow People, Dexter, The Big Lebowski, Mulholland Drive, Capote and more. Mark teaches at Playhouse Paris, the acting school he and his wife founded in Paris. He is also a co-founder of the American Capitalist Party and a graduate of the Objectivist Academic Center.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671032/
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