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Position:Home>Philosophy> Does the world need greedy just as much as nice people?Question: Does the world need greedy just as much as nice people!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ying versus yang!. If there were no criminals whatsoever then the police would have to harrass law-abiding citizens or collect unemployment checks ! How can you tell the contrast between black and white if there is no black(or all black and no white!) The contrast is an essential ingredient of existence-----it is up to us humans to filter out the degrees of difference, thus aligning ourselves/others with some value we attribute to each contrast we encounter---even the interpretation process is subject to differing viewpoints !Www@QuestionHome@Com You can look at it like this: Every human has an apple!. Nice people give their apples away!. Greedy people keep their apples!. A world with only nice people: Everybody gives their apple away -> everybody has an apple!. A world with only greedy people: Everybody keeps their apple -> everybody has an apple!. A world with both: Nice people give their apples away!. Greedy people keep their apples!. Greedy people get more apples!. Of course this is in no way realistic!. ;-)Www@QuestionHome@Com i don't know about need, since i think need can only matter really if you you define "for what"!. but i think the world would be a better place with as many nice people as possible, and without any greed whatsoever!. and i think that simply by removing greed you would create situations where more people are more free to be nice!. so removing greed in people makes more nice people!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Greed is a form of mental illness and causes untold suffering!. The world needs people who realise this, and behave accordingly!.Www@QuestionHome@Com As they say, it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round!. But that being said, I think we'd be a whole lot better off with less greed in the world!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |