Is it good or bad?
Selfish is defined in oxford dictionaries as (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.
The act of being selfish is selfishness.
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Highlighting the sentence; lacking consideration for other people. This phrase has been construed badly, it makes man think he was created solely to come and sacrifice himself for the good of others.
If man becomes a sacrificial lamb for others, he is bound to lose his self esteem.
There are sometimes you do not want to do something for your fellow man but society forces you to do it because if you don't do it you are termed as a selfish being. Man should never sacrifice his happiness for others, it undermines the values instilled in him.
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Why should I sacrifice something for you and I will not get anything in return, and you expect me to be doing it all the time, it makes no sense. I think @ned and @dan read books of AYN RAND before developing steemit. The moment you curate you should get something out on the pay out day. That is why 25% of the rewards go to the curators. Without this, steemit would crush. What will be the essence of holding Steem power when you know you won't get any rewards. Man should only sacrifice when it is going to benefit him. If you say I don't have morality, I don't care because I wasn't born for other people's benefits. I was born for my own benefit. If I want to be successful, it dawns on me and me only to make it happen. I shouldn't blame someone for not being successful, that person wasn't born for me. That ideology should not be entertained. It's damned. It makes people lazy. I will leave it here with a quote from AYN RAND.
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RAND, -The Virtue of Selfishness
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A person who focuses twenty-four hours a day on himself / herself cannot truly appreciate the actions of others. He often seems that in life it is surrounded by some enemies and absolutely no one to rely on. Of course, it can't be so. These people simply forget to take care of their loved ones, leaving loved ones, don't remember friends with loved ones out of pride. Loneliness is the constant and the only companion of such people. That's what selfishness is. What it is, feels having a close relative with a similar problem.
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