self-gratification
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It will concern whether AIs have any independent right to self-fulfillment and self-gratification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Selin understands these categories as the difference between devoting oneself to the societally condoned goals of making money and having kids versus freely pursuing self-gratification through love, art and adventure.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
Crucially, these collected lyrics aren’t an exercise in self-gratification; Sondheim is insightful and unsparing about his own mistakes, even the ones that only he is smart enough to see.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2019
“There’s a lot of self-gratification in helping people. I can’t believe people send us thank-you notes for something we get paid to do.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2017
He tempts men to the indulgence of appetite or to some other form of self-gratification, and thus benumbs their sensibilities, so that they fail to hear the very things which they most need to learn.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White
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