. . . "can" is all too easily taken to mean "likely will", which "ain't necessarily so".
If one truly believes that any act has a selfish motive, one pretty much *has* to dissociate that notion from
any value judgements or assessments of trustworthiness. The alternative would likely become unbearable.
So, *I* would expect such a person *not to care* whether they could *find* a selfish motive: they would
*assume* one *exists*, *but is not relevant to them*. That seems, *very* much, to be Spisefisken's point
of view.
Where an "impossible restriction" may come in, is that one who truly believes that all acts proced from
a selfish motive, will "find" one, *whether or not they know exactly what it is*, without having to "look
for it", at all!
Funny thing is, it is far easier to make a rational case for, "There is always a selfish motive," (albeit
often benign), than for, "Selfish motives are 'bad'."
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