Selfishness
* barrier to peace.
* biologically adapted trait.
* causes a sense of obligation towards other people, rather than a willing heart to help
  - others to simultaneously complain about poor public education and high taxes
* causes some people to kill their unborn children
  - take more from society than they give in return
* comes in many forms and is often hard to recognize.
* dictates what is offered and how it is offered.
* dies of inanition, and altruism grows because constantly fed.
* exists in a thousand different ways.
* fire that consumes the one who started it.
* generally motivates people to act.
* governs the world, and selfishness is the insanity of the age.
* implies a lack of concern for others and is truly harmful.
* is actually the detonator of all the cardinal sins
  - born in fear and self-charity is born in love
  - built into creation from the genes up
  - childishness
  - death
  - diametrically opposed to love
  - disintegrative while selflessness is integrative
  - everywhere, even in the heart
  - hostile to the growth of the soul
  - isolation in action
  - just the logical outcome, and the logical way to think, feel, and behave
  - mankind's fundamental defect
  - natural in children, and often dear
  - never satisfied until it completely consumes
  - one of most common human traits
* is one of the more common faces of pride
  - qualities apt to inspire love
  - seeking one s own advantage without regard for others
  - stinginess
* is the cause of all evil
  - devil incarnate in every man
  - disease that causes all the problems, world problems AND person problems
  - downfall of so many people
  - great destroyer of happy family life
  - habit that grows out of monopoly
  - intention to gratify self as an end
  - most sublime form of cynicism
  - mother of sin
* is the opposite of charitable love
  - root cause of all marital discord
* is the root of all evil
  - other sins
  - most all of our problems
  - therefore the fertile cause of all misfortune and pain
* isolates people by souring relationships.
* killer of relationships.
* leads to pride, self gratification, gluttony, etc.
* muscle that needs developing.
* natural sin.
* normal trait in people.
* power for good in society and for the maintenance of order and of prosperity.
* prevents the individual from letting go of things, feelings, or thoughts.
* problem for adults.
* puts the gaining and keeping of wealth above the welfare of others.
* sees material wealth as an end in itself.
* sign of immaturity, of being unwilling to speak death to self.
* sin, when temporary, and for time.
* state of voluntary committal to the indulgence of the sensibility.
* uses emotional pressure.
  * ' is having more concern for yourself than for others. It is caring, through thoughts or actions, more about your own needs than the needs and well-being of other people. It may be accompanied by a lack of empathy. Selfishness is the opposite of selflessness.
* weakness everyone have.

Sociobiology
* applies knowledge from biology to explain social behavior.
* controversial area of scholarship for many reasons, some political.
* deals with the biological basis for the social behavior of people and other animals.
* is biology.
* is the craniometry of the future
  - historical outgrowth of three prerequisite trends
  - study of the biological and evolutionary basis of animal behavior
* is the systematic study of all forms of social behavior, in animals and humans
  - the biological bases of social behavior
* places social behavior in an evolutionary context.
* represents the biologizing of tacit daily common sense.

Sacred thing
* act as totems to which groups and individuals ascribe power and importance.
* belong in sacred places.