A Pandemic of Selfishness
Selfishness is being concerned excessively or exclusively, for oneself or one’s own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others. Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness; and has also been contrasted with self-centeredness.
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Selfish
adjective
- (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure. – Google
The pandemic has brought out the ugly in people.
This can be observed when reading the comments section of a YouTube video about COVID-19 vaccinations.
On more than one occasion I have seen the word “selfish” used to describe and denigrate those who have chosen to not get vaccinated.
It made me think that the very act of calling someone else selfish was in itself a display of selfishness. After all, do we not profit or derive pleasure from putting someone down? Do we not insult others so that we may feel a sense of superiority? How much regard and consideration of others is involved when we set out to intentionally use a word to hurt them? Do we not call others selfish so that we may feel like we are selfless? Like we are good human beings?