Selfishness
selfish |ˈselfi sh |
adjective
(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure
I often do a lot of thinking, especially about the state of the world, humanity, the future, etc… so I was wondering, if there was a single word that could explain most of the problems in the world, what would that word be?
Selfishness
- Why do people eat meat?
Selfishness
They think about themselves and the momentary pleasure eating meat gives to them but they don’t think about the lives of those animals who suffer in order for them to have that pleasure.
- Why do people not offer their seats to others?
- Why are cars run by oil and not electricity?
- Why do people listen to loud music in public places?
- Why do people kill for money?
- Why do people steal?
- Why do people hunt?
- Why is there such inequality around?
- Why do people have their own kids instead of adopting?
- Why do people choose not to donate their organs?
Selfishness
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If people stopped thinking about themselves and started thinking of the world and its animals and people as equally important to them we would have no wars, no crime, no meat, no inequality, no global warming, no deforestation, and practically no bad things.
I am having an amazing opportunity creating a new business that I hope will bring me a great deal of money – my intention is to spend the bare minimum on myself and spend the rest creating charities that will help animals, people and the environment.
Gandhi said: You must be the change you wish to see in the world – I very much live by that and truly hope I have this opportunity to make a difference to this selfish planet.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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