My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values

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It's amazing how popular this idea that everything is rooted in selfishness is. This idea only works though if you expand the definition of selfishness so much to the point the word becomes meaningless.

All this talk of selfishness makes me think of objectivism, which is pretty much bullshit across the board.  I'm not sure if that's what the OP is driving at, but it's the first thing that springs to mind.

Oh yeah for sure, although the ironic thing for objectivists, if everything is rooted in selfishness their philosophy (that selfishness is good) becomes rather null and void, since everybody is being selfish all the time anyway. Although I hear this idea from lots of people of different political persuasions. It's funny that the OP claims it as 'his theory' as though he thought it up. It's always the case that the definition of selfishness is crafted to fit the situation though. Even the thread starter said that both eating dogs and not eating dogs are selfish activities. In that case the word is truly meaingless when made so broad.