Dear Sahar,

You ask the following: Why do we consider Avarice as a Vice? What follows is a short answer to your question. One's ability to put on another's shoes lies at the heart of all human virtues. By so doing, we go beyond our egocentric interests, needs, and desires. By definition, avarice or greed means one's inability to take into account another's legitimate interests and needs and only think of our egocentric and egoistic needs, interests, and the like. It is because of this that avarice is considered to be a capital sin in Christianity.

I hope I have got your question and that this hepls.

Best regards,

Orlando

Respected Orlando M Lourenço

I am thankful to you for such a beautiful explanation and answer to this discussion of mine.

I agree, with your point of view, but, if I say, I want to learn more, I want to participate in more and more academic activities or any activities when compared to others. Won't that be avarice? Isn't that bad? I know, we all live in a competitive world where everyone wants to be the best. But, is avarice the only way how we can achieve our goals?

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SQ

If a man thinks only of his own profit, and tries to benefit himself at the expense of others, he is committing a sin due to the damage of others. you can search for more and more but you cannot harm others just for yourself. "Naked self-interest" is prohibited.

Avarice, which is a negative and extreme greed for something such as wealth, can blur the vision of a person who falls into its trap, having the poisonous mentality of doing anything or sacrificing anything, right or wrong to accrued the desire (Eg. wealth). Many of such persons could lie, slander, evil plot another person, injure, or even kill to fulfill their unbridled cravings!

Because the most important one for you is yourself, you should ask the best for it, but without harm or injustice for others.

Dear Farangis Shahidzade ma'am,

Thank you for your ambrosial answer. I truly agree.

Best regards,

SQ

Respected Dickson Adom Sir,

I am happy and thankful for your wise and a veritable answer.

Regards,

SQ

Thank you Azzawi Hadi for your useful contribution.

Regards,

SQ

Dear Sahar,

If you want to learn more, to participate in more and more academic activities or any activities when compared to others you are not being greedy but looking for excellence. If, for example, you want to go ahead in your area of expertise, you are not impeding others from doing the same. In this vein, your legitimate desire of going further than your peers can even be a motive for them to want to go further than you. I would call this a healthy competetion, which is much better than inbreeding or intellectual corruption. Let's suppose that in your endeavours to go futher than some of your peers, they ask a favour of you such that they can go even further than you. If you refuse to help them because you want to be the best, then, as a psychologist, I would say that that would be a greedy behavior. Healthy competetion is even a desirable behavior in the academic domain for it looks for excellence and high patterns. Healthy competetion exits in good or even excellent universities. Inbreeding or intellectual corruption is a token of, say, low-standards universities.

Best regards,

Orlando

Respected Orlando M Lourenço Sir,

Your narrative panache of writing is extremely moving and motivating.

Thank you for your answer. :)

Regards,

SQ

Dear Sahar,

Thank you for very much for your kind words. I am happy to know that you see my writing as moving and motivation. I always was enamored with the idea of excellence, that is, of going further in the knowledge of the unknown and raise, say, irritating doubts or questions, that is, doubts whose answer leads us to advance knowledge or to get a better undertansding of the unkown.

Regards,

OL

Transcendence is what is required - no matter from which field of research you belong to.

Keep up the good work!

Best regards,

SQ

I am with pleasure agree with mentioned answers of my colleagues of Dr. Farangis, Dickson,and Sahar.

Regards,

Naseer Almukhtar

Thank you Naseer Almukhtar Sir for showing a positive response to other colleagues answers.

Best regards,

SQ