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    If self-interest reliably motivates just acts when agents... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Self-interest cannot serve as the natural, non-moral motive for just acts.

    If self-interest reliably motivates just acts when agents reason correctly about long-term advantage, P2's claim that self-interest is 'not always satisfied' by just acts conflates myopic and enlightened self-interest.

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    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Enlightened self-interest(as used in ethics)
    Making choices that benefit you in the long run by thinking ahead, like studying hard now because a good education will lead to better opportunities later.
    Just acts(as used in ethics)
    Actions that are fair, moral, and right according to principles of justice and ethical behavior.
    Myopic self-interest(as used in ethics)
    Pursuing what benefits you right now without thinking about long-term consequences, like eating junk food because it tastes good today even though it hurts your health later.
    P2(Provides the truth conditions for proposition (7), identified as proposition (7): George Bush does not exist.)

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    The principle that proposition (7) is true if and only if George Bush does not exist — a modalized instance of the Tarski truth-schema 's is true iff s'.
    agents(referring to people in this philosophical discussion)
    People, or more broadly, any thinking being capable of having beliefs and making decisions.
    self-interest(A motivation that Machiavelli suggests can align with the public good)
    A person's own personal advantage or benefit, what they want for themselves.

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