believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
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Readers not already sympathetic to Prose's argument, however, may be turned off by the opening of the essay (as well as by the entire essay itself). They may find Prose's tone condescending, smug, elitist, and arrogant. :)
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