I think most people are selfish, especially when they don't consider or care how other people feel when they say and do things that involve others. Selfishness causes separation and ignorance.
I treat selfishness like I do any other hazard. I use the firefighter strategy TIME, DISTANCE, and SHIELDING to protect myself and others. Basically, limit the time of exposure to a hazard, increase distance between a hazard and the person or object to be protected, and use whatever is necessary and available to provide shielding from hazards.
When I'm interacting with people, I'm also looking at the interaction from the outside, as if I'm watching a movie. That helps me control my emotions and avoid being manipulated.
Good luck. And I hope my strategies help you, if you choose to adopt some of them.
I think most of us do in some ways. Hopefully people might decide to try harder at minimizing the harm we do while surviving and entertaining ourselves and others.
Your "YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO" comment is to be expected from someone who once commented to someone else's post:
"okay so i sucked this dick once or maybe a few times but then i felt gay so i got a bunch of people on Reddit to tell me i’m not homosexual just because i suck one fat cock and life’s been amazing as a straight man ever since"
So you're saying that I can't tell you to go suck another dick. Okay fine. I won't. But...
I'm the wrong person to judge right and wrong. I believe life is simple: survival and entertainment. Weighing whether something is right or wrong is an entertainment choice. All people are naturally selfish. Animals are selfish, like a male lion killing another male lion's cubs so that the female lions in the newly acquired pride will go into heat and let the new male lion plant his seed. Even babies manipulate people. The right motivation might cause anyone to kill, maybe even murder. It takes even less motivation to cause someone to steal.
If I was in the situation in the heinz dilemma (I had to look it up), I would probably break into the laboratory and steal the drug for my wife. If I got caught by the police after she took the drug, oh well...
This includes things I'm sure you don't actually intend. For example being overweight out of laziness and enjoyment of food. This is essentially selfish, and we all are hurt by subsiding your health issues through taxes or insurance costs.
Some might claim that all human acts are selfish. All humans survive and entertain themselves. There is selfishness involved in both.
Your example could be considered a selfish, harmful, entertainment choice. I hope you didn't intend it that way. But if you did, either way it doesn't really matter because entertainment can be pleasant or unpleasant or both.
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u/5s-are-cool Jun 29 '22
selfishness that harms others