In a sense, yes. Selfishness drives your desire to distance yourself from the wishes of your friends, yet it also drives you to keep them close.
[Kind of like his dilemma. It was sort of selfish to want to listen to his own desires of distancing himself from what few companions he had to cause them less pain in the end (less trouble for everyone, supposedly), but it was also selfishness that caused him to want to spend as much time as he could with the children of possibility, even if his own existence caused nothing but trouble for them. How...selfish.]
However, it is also understandable. Mankind has been driven by companionship, and the loss of it is a prospect that frightens many.
The loss of one's self and existence is such a prospect as well.
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[Kind of like his dilemma. It was sort of selfish to want to listen to his own desires of distancing himself from what few companions he had to cause them less pain in the end (less trouble for everyone, supposedly), but it was also selfishness that caused him to want to spend as much time as he could with the children of possibility, even if his own existence caused nothing but trouble for them. How...selfish.]
However, it is also understandable. Mankind has been driven by companionship, and the loss of it is a prospect that frightens many.
The loss of one's self and existence is such a prospect as well.