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- Kim Possible and Fairly Oddparents?

You’re losing all of your pimp status with that choice.

Thats how the car’s meant to be driven… dont let the status symbol yuppie porsche drivers make you forget

1) your experience with that teacher resulted in you making a generalization about school. I had some of the same issues as you when I was in elementary school. in 3rd grade I was reading on a college reading level and they wanted me to skip grades. But, I also had good teachers. Your experience with that teacher resulted in you making a generalization about school. Remember, school is just the minimum. As an individual you have the right and ability to push yourself further and harder.

2) Same for religion, not all religions believe in assassinations etc. Many teach the opposite as you mentioned: “turn the other cheek” for example. But your bad eperiences caused you again to form a general opinion of all religions.

Anyways let me get off that. Holla at ya boy !

(i know this is old, sue me. im bored.)

I’m not sure I have seen a definition or synonym of “selfish” which anywhere defines it as evil, but you are right, it is not normally associated with or synonymous to what we would call attributes.

My personal feeling is there is a reason for everything, but in moderation. Selfishness does not appear to encompass or be about moderation, but about being an antonym to generosity, if it was, it would seem there would be little need for both words.

I could go on and on about this, but generally I think what you describe as “good” selfishness discounts the notion we are not ourselves the center of the universe and that despite the requirement that we all look after basis needs and functions to merely survive, I wouldn’t necessarily call them selfish.

It would seem that in order for something to be selfish it must be relative to something else. Is it really selfishness or survival to feed yourself as much as anyone else when everyone is starving? You could be selfless and super generous and offer a portion of your equal portion to someone else, but to take an equal portion as all others would not seem selfish.

I believe selfishness and pride both make the assumption that you deserve a larger share or are superior to others, which begs the question of why, if we are all human beings? Being prideful would assume you did or do a good job. The question is relative to what and whom and why the need to feel better than another, we’re all human beings and we all have the same basic needs, no matter how proud you are of yourself you will still live and die as all other human beings and what might be pleasant or important to you, might not be to others therefore how are you better than them if they don’t even care about the things that make you feel better than them. You might own a hundred cars, they may care less about owning even one, we’re all different and it would seem we would all have an equal right to be here, to view and assume things as though we are the only person on earth and all wisdom and desires emanate from us and are the “correct” ones is to be either ignorant or naive or blind to the reality that we are not the only one on earth and each and every person on earth has the same right to be here as us.

It should not take a great deal of thought or imagination or even a look out the window to realize what the world would be like if we all imagined we were God and the only God that knows the way.

Can you imagine 6.5 billion Gods on earth all expecting the others to shower them with praise and a larger share of wealth or food or love than the other?

How many thousands of years have we had to see the down sides to selfishness?

Human beings are social animals, we are still animals and we still compete to survive, but being social animals we must compete with others on sveral levels and cooperate with them on others.

I believe it is the balance of the two and the treating of others as we’d want them to treat us that will bring harmony to us all and harmony is as pleasant to us all as eating and lovemaking and a roof over our heads and is not possible if any of us are missing any of the necessiies of life and fulfillment of their desires in the same way you’d like your own desires fllfilled Selfish to me is defined as anyone who wants more for themselves than they want for everyone else.

I believe we remain animal in part because it brings us those instincts to survive and look after oursleves, but we do not have to be selfish to survive.

If we were the two last people on earth and there was only one morsel of food left and only enough to allow one of us to survive for one more day, it woud seem selfishness becomes moot, but for the how soon one or the other of us would die. One of us could “selfishly” take the last morsel for ourselves and watch the other person die realively quickly or we unselfishly could give them all of our portion and say good bye to them or we could split the remaining morsel evenly. The outcome is still the same for both of us and in reality, the outcome will still be the same for both of us and all the other 6,5 billion people that join us on earth at the moment. We all will live and we all will die and no amount of selfishness as we live is going to prevent us from dying. Even if we were to find a way to live free from disese and old age, we’d better also find a way to feed an infinite population and if not, immortality itself will ultimately become causation of our death by starvation from overpopulation.