| If you value a higher number of automobiles on the highways and also assign high scores to clean air, it is more self-defeating criteria. |
| Making ourselves and our allies invisible out of protest is self-defeating. |
| It's sort of like an appendage, and no matter how burdensome or self-defeating it is, it's just there. |
| And for science to produce a hypothesis that claims that doxastic states don't exist would be illogical and self-defeating. |
| Seldom will so much hot air have been expended by so many for such a meanly self-serving and self-defeating result. |
| Why engage in artistic efforts at all if they are essentially futile and self-defeating and devoid of truth? |
