From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.