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  2. Selfishness - Wikipedia

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    Selfishness is being concerned excessively or exclusively for oneself or one's own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness; and has also been contrasted (as by C. S. Lewis ) with self-centeredness .

  3. Three poisons - Wikipedia

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    These three states are delusion, also known as ignorance; greed or sensual attachment; and hatred or aversion. [1] [2] These three poisons are considered to be three afflictions or character flaws that are innate in beings and the root of craving, and so causing suffering and rebirth. [1] [3]

  4. Greed - Wikipedia

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    Xunzi believed that selfishness and greed were fundamental aspects of human nature and that society must endeavor to suppress these negative tendencies through strict laws. [31] This belief was the basis of legalism, a philosophy that would become the prevailing ideology of the Qin dynasty and continues to be influential in China today.

  5. MSNBC analyst says 'hatred' has always been at heart of MAGA

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    MSNBC political analyst Eddie Glaude Jr. argued during a conversation on the network on Monday that hatred, greed and selfishness were at the center of President-elect Donald Trump's political ...

  6. The ‘age of selfishness’ is making us sick, single, and ...

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    We are living in an age of selfishness. Many of us noticed an increase in selfish behavior during the early days of the pandemic. At the time, we may have written it off as a flash in the pan that ...

  7. Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia

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    C. S. Lewis writes in Mere Christianity that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that Lucifer became wicked: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God ...

  8. Psychological egoism - Wikipedia

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    Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest and selfishness, even in what seem to be acts of altruism.It claims that, when people choose to help others, they do so ultimately because of the personal benefits that they themselves expect to obtain, directly or indirectly, from doing so.

  9. Did Jesus really prepare the road for selfishness, greed and ...

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    Columnist Bill Gindlesperger writes about the contradiction he sees between some who claim to be Christian and their support of Donald Trump.