Jealousy and greed are interrelated; if I am jealous of my neighbor's car
I am actually practicing covetousness which is a form of greed. If I am jealous
of my wife or husband it is because I think of them as possessions rather than
as people.
Some people think that self-interest is the same as greed I do not think
that self-interest is the same as greed nor is it (self-interest) evil. Yet because
it puts your welfare above other people’s welfare it is easy to mistake
self-interest as greed.
Greed (and I’ll define it more in a later lesson) is insisting that you
should be the only person to have possessions. It (greed) is not wanting more
possessions than you currently have unless by having more things you seek to
deny possessions to your neighbor.
© 2011 Vic Jones
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