Sorry to turn this in a direction where there is an argument. I just was watching a set of videos about the Dalai Lama at Stanford and a training program they have there on compassion so it was on my mind. I just mentioned Buddhism partly from that, but also because it is the easiest to name of several schools that do not see the self as an individual agent independent from others so the discussion of self-centered motives or bad faith has to be altered because it doesn't apply so neatly if you take that point of view. I'm suspicious too, but I can't attribute bad faith to people since I don't know unless I have something to go on so I can't say all people are acting in bad faith. That doesn't seem tenable.
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