Is the world that we live in really that selfish? In chapter 2 Wheelan talks about self interest in the scenario of two men who are accused of murder. If one says that the other is at fault while the one saying that didn't really do anything that man could send his partner to jail for life and he would only have three years. That doesn't seem right to me at all. Are we all just selfish and only want whats best for ourselves? Does the government just want money and doesn't really care about what it takes to get that money?
I really was interested when Wheelan talks about how we can send a man to the moon but we cant get homeless people off the streets. It made me think back to the first chapter and the baseball player. We give so much money to somethings but don't have money for the poor people. We have science to get a man to the moon and we can figure it out mathematically. "We don't have a formula for persuading a sixteen-year old not to drop out of school" (53). Things in life aren't that easy to understand like math and science.
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