![]() ![]() ![]() These advantages are: peace, prosperity, freedom, etc. It seems that those who proposed the theory base their definition of advantage on scientific formulas. Many have taken great risks and chances despite the fact that their advantage lay in not doing so. History contradicts the assumption that human beings always act to their greatest advantage. ![]() The Underground Man criticizes whoever voiced such a theory for being overly naïve. If their true interests were disclosed to them, they would see that it is always in their best interest to do good things and would necessarily do only good deeds since no one acts against their best interest. The narrator asks who was the first to claim that people do not do what is good only because they are not aware of where their true interests lie. ![]()
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