This, economists will tell you, leads to a "tragedy of the commons, " where individual owners, acting in their own self interests, destroy the resource.

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Self-dealing helped destroy the economy so focused on the bottom line and so unfocused on consequences for everyone else.

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If the bomblets fail to find something suitable to destroy, they automatically self-destruct.

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He seems indifferent to the Brotherhood's self-declared mission to "destroy Western civilization from within" or the close alignment between many of his policy recommendations and the interests of the Brothers and other Shariah adherents who seek such an outcome.

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Whim worshipping only leads to self destruction, and any one is free to destroy themselves.

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For the four billion people not fortunate enough to live in economic nirvana behind America's protective nuclear shield, it is a self-proclaimed messiah using its unlimited power to destroy and then recreate the world in its image.

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However, he underestimates the extent to which this decision will destroy both his sexuality and his sense of self.

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He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

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The companies, in survival mode and out of pure self-interest, jump at the chance, as even a weak government case can destroy them.

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