Alas, gross, individual selfishness is finally acculturated. Society thereby reflects a grim, cumulative tally which signals a major cultural decline. Cultural decline is accelerated when single-interest segments of society become indifferent to general values once widely shared. Some may not join in this drift, but instead they step aside, whereas once they might have constrained, as is their representative right. Today, in place of some traditionally shared values is a demanding conformity pushed, ironically, by those who eventually will not tolerate those who once tolerated them.
Selfishness is actually the detonator of all the cardinal sins.
It is the hammer for the breaking of the Ten Commandments, whether by neglecting parents, the Sabbath, or by inducing false witness, murder, and envy. No wonder the selfish individual is often willing to break a covenant in order to fix an appetite. No wonder those who will later comprise the telestial kingdom, after they have paid a price, were once unrepentant adulterers, whoremongers, and those who both loved and made lies. Situational ethics are thus made to order for the selfish. Unsurprisingly therefore, selfishness leads to terrible perceptual and behavioral blunders.