The monster called self-importance

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Each nation thinks that they are the only important one, and the only one who needs oil, or land, or whatever, and they make war. And, what was the reason for the war? Self-importance.

Well when it comes down to it, if any nation thought some other nation's needs were more important than their nation's needs, that wouldnt be a very strong nation.

The same thing goes to people who steals. They think that they need the thing they stealed more than its owner, so they steal. It also goes for people who kills, or lies, etc. All this evils can be tracked down to the self-importance.

In some cases I believe there are scenarios when a thief may need something more than their victim. Morality aside, the beggar probably needs a wallet full of money more than the guy who gets wasted at his country club every night.



I was going to respond to more of your post, but eh. The point I just wanted to make is that maybe this natural urge of self importance is part of our nature. Your idea that self importance could be the cause of evils in the world is an interesting one, but that is just like saying humans are the cause of evils in the world. That is most likely true, because we are pretty much the only species with a sense of morality strong enough to label some acts or thoughts as evil and others as good.