Best for An Individual Is Not Necessarily Best for The Society

In humans, the capacity to care about others extends beyond caring for one’s offspring and kin to caring about and wanting to promote the well-being of friends, acquaintances, and even strangers. Human feelings such as empathy, compassion, and sacrifice that are related to this capacity to care for the well-being of other, is as much a part of human nature as selfishness. Thus, the larger question that what is best for an individual may not necessarily be best for the society often lies in such inherent dichotomy of human nature.

Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher of seventeenth century said that self-interest ....