Joshua posed the question, Do you think humanity will survive if we keep being selfish?
Went I first went to answer this question, I wanted to say yes. After all, human beings are naturally selfish creatures and always have been, and we’ve already survived like that for half a million years. When I talked to my friend about it, however, he brought up the point that we may have always been selfish creatures, but it’s been getting progressively worse. I realized he was right, and changed my answer.
It seems that every generation, humans get more and more selfish. Material possessions have gotten more and more important and valuable, big corporations are getting more money while smaller ones die off, and people like Tim Geitner are basically stealing taxpayers’ money to benefit themselves. Our entire economy is on the downfall, tons of people are jobless and homeless, and nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
The more selfish people are in this day and age, the more people they screw over. The number of jobless people will keep rising, which will cause the number of homeless people to keep rising, which will make the death toll rise since it’s hard to keep healthy with no health care or food. Especially in the winter. America as a country is on the decline, mostly from people being selfish.
My question for everyone is, Do you think these selfish behaviors (and therefore the decline of a prosperous America) are in any way related to the decline of religion in our society?
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