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The Want-Satisfaction Argument
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The want-satisfaction argument claims every voluntary act serves the agent's own desire, so every act, however generous it looks, is self-interested.
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A relief worker chooses the flood zone. The argument runs: the choice satisfied her own want to help — so the act served herself.