Selfishness?

Question

Define selfishness.

What's so bad about being selfish?

Answer 1

Self consumption.

Answer 2

Nothing really.  It guarantees your survival.  It's a lonely path.  But m'eh.  Most people are annoying anyways.

Answer 3

A certain degree of selfishness is important to assure survival.  You need to ensure that your basic needs are met.  However, a balance is needed to assure that you have a strong and productive place within a society - and this is done through reciprocity.  This is through an exchange - through friendship, nurturing familial relations, and courting for mateship.  At the basic level, it is a transaction of services to ensure you thrive and reproduce.  Which ultimately is all about the self when put that way.

We know that humanity is more than that - thinking about others is the humane and ethical thing to do.

Answer 4

Being selfish is being occupied with what's good for oneself to the point where you don't consider what's good for the other people in your life.

You need to be selfish to a certain point, otherwise you're always doing things for others at the expense of your own good.  But selfishness reaches a harmful point when the other people in your life perceive you as neglecting or using them.  When a person is so selfish that it harms their relationships with others, then it is harmful.

Answer 5

Demonstrating selfishness: showing that personal needs and wishes are thought to be more important than those of other people.

Selfish people care more about themselves than anyone else in any given situation...that means a selfish person might worry more about getting blood on them rather than try to save a life.It's bad because it's not good.

Answer 6

All your actions, thoughts, deeds are all for you and it does not matter at what costs.  Friendship, family, anything and anybody is worthless to a selfish person.

It is all me or nothing.  

No man is an Island.

Answer 7

everything is about you

sometimes selfish people take advatage of people thats not cool.  once and a while you should think of others.  if your selfish with kids its not good for the kid

Answer 8

Whats wrong with it is , one day you are going to be stuck in a situation and you are going to need help and someone there has the answers to what you need and they are not going to give you that help because they are going to be selfish for their own reasons and then you will know the true meaning of the word selfish. Not only that, selfish goes hand and hand with greed and simply to make oneself happy rather than others. Therefore people dont forget and they can disown you after awhile because of the greed in your heart. Giving is massive, you will always remember someone when they die if they were givers. Giving makes your heart strong, selfishness makes your heart weak.The next time you go to someones house and you take a packet of biscuts, did you take them there to give as a gift or to make you feel good. If its to feel good thats being selfish. Or you could look at yourself as a fish in a jail cell, seen to every body as a cell fish. Its a label on your head and stays. Hopefully you will never be selfish after this, its not cool.