What is greed? Is it when we want more than we need?

Answer 1

Greed is about an excessive want, as want or 'desire' alone isn't necessarily bad within reason. What is reasonable however can be relative to situations or societal standards. Where there isn't enough to eat, wanting seconds is greedy, even if your needs are higher than anybody else's.

Also fairness may not be dependent on what each person needs, but to what they 'deserve'. If a person helped get the food, maybe he deserves a little more.

People without empathy, taking more than they deserve, while causing the suffering of others, will be labeled as being greedy.

Answer 2

What Is Greed

Answer 3

Desire without reason, excuse or justification, beyond the boundaries or excess of the environment one is in.
Greed on a planet where there is no want, would be different than greed on this planet, where there are people with very little. So it is circumstantial, and regulated by ones own mores and ethics.

Answer 4

It is only quite recently that the definition of greed included the word excessive; excessive greed used to be called avarice. The older definition of greed is simply - an eager desire or longing - which is quite rational and does not imply harm to oneself or others.

Modern definitions change many real concepts into disastrous corruptions of logic and reason. Today the definition of self-esteem reads - an unduly high opinion of oneself; vanity.

Answer 5

In my view greed can not be defined in relation to an individual's need, because it is unscientifically unique and relative. Greed has to be defined in the social context and would thus be................ a desire to have something that is not equitably due to you or which is in excess of an equitable share for you. What is equitable is to be decided based on the social environment relative to the individual.

Answer 6

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What is greed? Is it when we want more than we need?

Answer 7

Greed is stepping on others to get what you want, that you really don't need to live .

Answer 8

Greed is wanting more and more of something just for the sake of having it.

Answer 9

Greed is when you willfully harm yourself or others to acquire material wealth, and disregard the harm done... when you value your wealth more than you value people. The harm can be simple unfairness (like choosing not to pay people as much for their work as you get for the same or less work) or it can be to oneself (like profiting from a polluting industry that ends up poisoning your own kids).

Answer 10

Yes, absolutely.