Why Do People Think They're Doing the Right Thing?

They'll probably have just convinced themselves, whatever pharmaceutical tycoon or whatever advertising executive or politician, they're saying, well, we may be manipulative, but none the less, it's the right cause. And so they paint themselves as a hero,. When really actually what is going on, their true drive is, well, actually, i just want to make another forty lon this year and get into power in the next election cycle. Justification you have people think that they're doing it. It's this self serving bias. Really, they want power, really, they want control. But they're convincing themselves constantly that they'redoing the right thing.

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