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Can selfishness be justified?

Asked by MilkyWay (13745points) January 21st, 2012

What exactly is “selfishness”?
Can it be justified when a person is being selfish?
If a mother walked out of an abusive relationship, and left her children behind, is she being selfish? Is she wrong?
Or does it depend upon the circumstances whether we determine if a person is being selfish or not? And doesn’t every one need to be selfish sometime in their lives, in order to survive?

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