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		<title>By: hm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I so agree!  I have no problem with incentives and self-interest as a motivation.  The tide turned against drunk driving when MADD caused people to feel vulnerable to random collisions with drunk drivers.  Smoking was banned publicly when the severe ill effects of second-hand smoke came to be appreciated.

Individuals and organizations are motivated by self-interest.  This is healthy, as long as we don&#039;t go too far, but sometimes we do.  We may do what we want to do excessively, at the expense of others, or at our own expense when our risk:benefit calculus is wanting.  Then we need others to set limits or provide incentives.  Eventually, we thank them!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I so agree!  I have no problem with incentives and self-interest as a motivation.  The tide turned against drunk driving when MADD caused people to feel vulnerable to random collisions with drunk drivers.  Smoking was banned publicly when the severe ill effects of second-hand smoke came to be appreciated.</p>
<p>Individuals and organizations are motivated by self-interest.  This is healthy, as long as we don&#8217;t go too far, but sometimes we do.  We may do what we want to do excessively, at the expense of others, or at our own expense when our risk:benefit calculus is wanting.  Then we need others to set limits or provide incentives.  Eventually, we thank them!</p>
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