i despre limitele explicatiilor si justificarilor in termeni de rationalitatea blatistului si interes economic strict (in general): "This end [narrow

economic self interest] does provide a sufficient reason to free ride, but visualizing someone choosing a different end is quite easy. Simple altruism is not the only alternative that will violate this narrow assumption. People may desire social improvementsliberty, justice, peace, etc.- not simply for their material benefits, but as ends in and of themselves, independently present within their utility functions. Patrick Henry may have been engaging in political hyperbole when he exclaimed "Give me liberty or give me death!", but he was still expressing a willingness to pay more for attaining liberty than its economic returns would cover. Perhaps this willingness should be called ideological altruism;