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"One could come up with a story about how people are motivated to act selfishly but enjoy acting morally..."
Actually, I think a lot of stories are like that.
Because "CONFLICT IS DRAMA!!!!!1!!!one!!!!", a whole lot of stories I've been reading involve the characters having an arc that goes like this:
-Problem occurs, everyone has different ideas about how to solve it. -Ignored dissenting character, perhaps with prodding by certain outside forces, blows up, acts like a jerk, and storms off. -Dissenting character realizes that regardless of how much better their own plan was, that they've let a lot of relatively small and meaningless things drive a wedge between themselves and their friends, right when their friends needed them to be there and "Oh I was a fool!" and blah blah blah kiss and make up, Friendship is Magic.
Unless its a zombie apocolypse story, in which case the character in question NEVER stop fighting until they die, or at least they stop and reveal "they were a good person all along who made bad decisions" about ten mintues or so before the zombies eat them.
AND I APPARENTLY DOOMED MY DESCENDANTS WITH ORIGINAL SIN, TOO! WILL THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTIONS OF A SINGLE AFTERNOON NEVER END!?
At first I was angry with myself for being afraid to say "Niblick"
but then when I said it I was angry with myself because Elizer had manipulated me into saying it via reverse psychology.
My human mind cannot resist something that you taboo so hard which is so easy to do! Damn it! Damn it all!
"Dur? What's that, God? Don't what? Eat the apples from the Tree of Knowledge!? Well, if you insist, I'd love to! OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM...."
I'M SO SORRY, ALL OF YOU 3^^^3 PEOPLE!
AND I APPARENTLY DOOMED MY DESCENDANTS WITH ORIGINAL SIN, TOO! WILL THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTIONS OF A SINGLE AFTERNOON NEVER END!?
Why, oh god, whyyyyyy!?