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Question:greed is desire that's gotten out of control


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: greed is desire that's gotten out of control

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so SIG.

Desire is like a wish--you desire a soda; a car; a wife.
Greed is a virtue that gains one the values he desires.

"In popular usage, the word "selfishness" [greed] is a synonym of evil; the image it conjures is of a murderous brute who tramples over piles of corpses to achieve his own ends, who cares for no living being and pursues nothing but the gratification of the mindless whims of any immediate moment.

Yet the exact meaning and dictionary definition of the word "selfishness" [greed] is: concern with one's own interests.

This concept does not include a moral evaluation; it does not tell us whether [greed over] one's own interests is good or evil; nor does it tell us what constitutes man's actual interests. "

Desire is the want or need for a particular item or thing such as money or love. While Greed is the overwhelming need to hoard things and want things without an accrual need

Good question, there is hardly any difference

from what the words convey