Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Argument about human motivation


An interesting argument from the New York Times reader:

"All pain caused by humanity can always be synthesized down to ego and greed.

There is no action taken by an individual, and thus collectively by civilization, that is leading us away from enlightenment that cannot be attributed to these two destructive motivations, ego and greed.

It is only by making choices that resist these temptations that humanity has a chance of survival, and any one of us has a chance of living a life of peace and joy."

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