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Selfishness is a kind of concealment of one's own interests.

Selfishness can also be an act that ensures one's competitiveness.

Lions compete for territory with each other. When other lions break in, the lions in this territory will attack until the lion escapes. This behavior is nothing more than a lion protects its territory, and its purpose is to ensure that the prey in the territory is for its own use.

The more food you have, the more you can ensure your survival. This is just an act of maintaining your competitiveness.

Although a species is a (so-called) high-level animal, its instinct remains unchanged. It is these instincts that prompt people to evolve toward higher levels. Only selfishness can gain more competitiveness, so as to preserve the continuation of race, and when life obtains more competitive benefits, it can occupy a living position.

The higher the status, the more beneficial it is to develop.

If the continuation of the race of the people is a kind of instinct given to life, all life is afraid of death, and immortality makes selfishness possible. If "not selfish" can ensure that one does not die, then unselfishness must be a nature. However, this phenomenon is rare in nature.

On the contrary, ‘unselfish’ is an act of artificial modification. Acts performed to achieve a certain purpose can be rewards, showing off, etc.

Purpose and motivation-driven behaviors are behaviors that only take place after thinking, and are obviously not nature.

More than two thousand years ago, Confucian master Mencius proposed that human nature is good. Later, another Confucian master Xunzi said that human nature is evil. Who is right and who is wrong? There has been no result in a debate until now.

In fact, in my opinion, both of these views are wrong. Why? It’s very simple. If human nature is inherently good, then it should be a conjugation between good and good, and good things should be inherited. There should be no evil people and evil things in this world, but in fact, our world has always been full of evil people and evil things everywhere;

If human nature is evil, it should be a conjugation of evil and inheritance of evil. There should be no good people and good deeds in this world, but in fact, our world has always been full of good deeds and is everywhere.

It can be seen that the statement that human nature is good, human nature is evil, is not valid.

So, what is human nature? The answer is: selfish.

Selfishness is the starting point, end point or fundamental point of a person's behavior, subjectively for himself. That is to say, all his behaviors are for himself. Of course, while subjectively being himself, there are often situations for others.

Human beings are selfish, and there is a very popular saying in China that has made a good expression, which is: "If you don't do it, heaven will be punished and earth will be destroyed."

​​​ Selfishness is an objective need for everyone to base themselves on this world. If a person fundamentally gives up his or her needs, the result can only be in the competition between people and the struggle between people and the environment. He will eventually be eliminated spiritually, which is the so-called "heaven punishment and earth destruction".

The first cry of a baby when he came to the world showed his selfish nature: Please pay attention, I am here! Is there anything to eat? Feed me! I want to raise me to adulthood!

A child, when he has not been influenced by etiquette, he will never give up big pears like Kong Rong, as long as he likes to eat them.

Kong Rong gave up the pear because he already understood that human needs are diverse. In addition to material needs, he also has spiritual needs. He knows how to make plans for himself - eat less to win praise and love from adults, which is even more enjoyable!

From the example of Kong Rong giving away pears, we have seen two points: one is that human needs are diverse, which can be summed up in two categories: material and spiritual;

The second is that the ways people make profits for themselves are diverse, which can also be attributed to two major categories: direct and indirect.

People sometimes focus on material needs, sometimes focus on spiritual needs, sometimes naked-naked-naked picking needs (direct way), and sometimes roundabout ways to obtain needs (indirect way).

It is precisely because people's needs and ways of making profits for themselves that their selfish nature is often concealed.

Many times, many people and affairs seem to be unable to be explained by selfishness. For example, the above mentioned Kong Rong Renli is mistakenly used by people as a typical example of human nature being unselfish.

Wen Tianxiang, who has always been called a hero, has resolutely refused to surrender to the Mongolians and is willing to sacrifice his life even though he knows that he will lose his life because of this. Is he also for himself? The answer is yes, and of course he is also for himself.

Mencius said, "Fish is what I want, and the bear's paw is what I want; the two cannot be obtained as well, and the bear's paw is what I want. Life is what I want, and the righteousness is what I want; the two cannot be obtained as well, and the righteousness is what I want. Life is what I want, and what I want is more than life, so I do not want to gain; death is what I hate, and what I hate is more than death, so I suffer from something I don't want to avoid."

As a believer of Confucius and Mencius, loyalty and righteousness are his highest creed and his greatest spiritual need. Since he has long stated to the world that "keep the loyalty and his heart shines on history", asking him to surrender is to make him feel more uncomfortable than death. Sacrifice for his life is spiritual self-satisfaction for him. In his consciousness, "keep the loyalty and his heart shines on history" is more cost-effective than surrender.

Of course, we really admire Wen Tianxiang's behavior of sacrificing himself to die. Everyone has only one life. It is absolutely worthy of our recognition that he can give up his life and safeguard national dignity!

Many heroic examples of "sacrificing one's life for righteousness" in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, either out of faith and considering one's own spiritual needs, or because of circumstances, such as some combat heroes, moving forward is death, and retreat is death, so they become heroes in advance; or they are made by processing and elevating.

Human history is actually a selfish history. The change of dynasties and the evolution of history are all driven by the selfishness of human nature.

Only when there are people who want to be kings (emperors) dominate the world can the dynasty change; only when there are a large number of people who want to be slaves and lonely but want to make achievements, some people have become kings (emperors) dominate; various ideas have emerged for the need for rule and anti-rule; the pursuit of selfish desires has promoted the continuous development of social productivity and science and technology.

The selfish nature of human nature determines that the collective composed of people is also selfish.

In order to meet their needs, humans will cruelly deprive animals and plants of their lives. A country always tries every means to seek benefits for itself. The United States, which claims to advocate democracy, freedom and equality the most, in order to obtain huge economic and political interests, will illegally invade Iran-La-Keh despite the opposition of the United Nations and most countries.

Although every modern political party has a beautiful vocabulary, it is all based on the interests of the party as the code of conduct. The American democracy party, the Communist Party, and the people's progress party are the same.

In addition, all kinds of circles of all sizes formed in society have spared no effort to protect their own circle interests.

If a person's selfish nature exceeds a certain limit without restraint, it will become evil.

Robbery and kill life for money. To satisfy one's nature - desire - rape, corruption - officials lose control and seek bribes - accept bribes or corruption - impolite, etc. are the result of human selfish nature not being controlled and being able to achieve a certain limit.

In order to curb the selfish nature of people beyond the limit, it is necessary to establish a society ruled by law.

After the victory of the American War, the elites designed the future of the country very ideally, but because the rule of law was not supported for a while, in the first few years, states fought for interests and groups fought for interests. The people and governments fought for interests, which made the whole country messy, with people complaining, and riots and riots appeared.

In response to this, Hua—Sheng—don once said sadly: "Thirteen sovereign states. You fight me, I fight you, and another fight with the head of the federal government. They will surely die together soon..."

"We made some mistakes that need to be corrected. When we established the Federation, we probably made an overestimation of human nature. Experience tells us that if there is no intervention from coercive forces, even if the order is the most in line with their interests, people are unwilling to adopt and implement it..." It is precisely the timely revision of the rule of law that gradually brought the social order of the United States to the right track.

It can be seen that as long as social measures (such as rule of law construction and education construction) are appropriate, the limitations of human selfishness can be overcome.

Human nature is selfish. Perhaps some people will refute: If human nature is selfish, how can Lei-Feng, Hua-Sheng-Don explain it, how can charitable behavior be explained, how can conscience and maternal love be explained?...

What is selfishness? Selfishness means satisfying one's own needs and benefiting the greatest benefit for oneself with the smallest efforts. While everyone seeks selfishness, they also hope that others are selfless, because others' selflessness benefits themselves directly or indirectly, which means satisfying one's own selfishness.

Selfishness is human nature, but people who show selfishness are unpopular.

Everyone is unwilling to make friends with selfish people because the other party's selfishness often leads to damage to their own interests. Unpopularity means losing other people's love, support and cooperation are usually directly or indirectly transformed into real profit losses.

Therefore, on the one hand, people seek selfish interests for themselves to the greatest extent, and on the other hand, they try every means to make others (especially those who have a significant influence on their own interests) believe that they are actually selfless, righteous, and consider others. These two points are the most important factors that influence people's behavior.

The world is bustling, all for profit; the world is bustling, all for profit. People do not care for themselves, and heaven and earth are destroyed. Selfishness represents the basic attributes of people, but many people are unwilling to admit it. Because admitting that everyone is selfish means that they are also selfish, and selfish people are unpopular.

The more hypocritical a society is, the fewer people admit that everyone is selfish or selfish. People will hide the true nature of things, cover up their motivations, and try every means to beautify their behavior.

Human nature is selfish, and everyone is like this. Human selfishness is not necessarily material, but spiritual. Everything that anyone does is purposeful and selfish. It is just a difference between the nature of selfishness. Through acquired learning, people can disguise themselves and sublimate the state of selfishness. Over time, they can seal themselves up and even eliminate them.

From the perspective of human reproductive physiology, before a human becomes a human, it starts to selfishly thousands of sperm chase an egg. If sperm is a gentleman and everyone is so willing to let it go, how can eggs be fertilized and why can humans reproduce? Therefore, human nature is selfish.

Take love as an example. Are you willing to give your lover love? Are you willing to transfer your wife to others? Answer: It is definitely no. In essence, love is selfish than human beings.

People say: We must protect ecological balance and attach importance to environmental protection. Why do we have to protect the earth? Because people need to survive.

We hate it because it eats the sheep we rely on for food, and wolves are inevitably going to eat people when they are hungry.

Do we humans say selflessly: Wolf, you are so pitiful, come on, for your life, we sacrifice ourselves and eat me, you will not be hungry! You will have life

For example, when a famine comes, if a person does not have a good effect after birth, the first thing he thinks of is to leave limited food to himself and his relatives and friends. Giving it to his relatives can be said to be a superficial selflessness, but in essence it is selfish, because if his relatives live well, it will be beneficial to him. At least it is harmless to him;

If a person is well influenced by the acquired nature, he will give limited food to his relatives and friends, and then think of himself. Because he has learned, he knows the meaning of nobility. But on the surface, what is his inner purpose is still to be further examined.

If he is still alive after the famine, no matter what his motive was at the beginning, nobility would bring him many benefits: reputation and the material it brings (from a higher perspective, the whole process is also a kind of selfishness, a kind of noble selfishness).

If he unfortunately died of famine, then there are two possibilities: it is possible that he has really eliminated the essence of "evil" through acquired learning.

Perhaps he still has a noble selfishness in his heart, but this selfish attempt was just an attempt.

This is true for relatives and friends, so what about ordinary friends? What about strangers? The above analysis also applies, but he will be more selfish.

Some people may ask: Maybe human nature is good, but through acquired learning, he becomes bad? Then ask a question: Where did the person who teaches him to learn bad things?!

There are many examples of selfishness or even evil in real society that can well prove that human nature is selfish, and those examples of crimes support the selfishness of human nature.

Those good people and good deeds in society can also prove that human nature is selfish. If those good people do not get benefits for a long time, including spiritual levels such as reputation, they will stop doing good deeds.

Because human nature is selfish, and most people have not eliminated the selfish nature of their hearts, but have sealed the selfishness of their hearts, whether deep or shallow.

In the world, like Lei Feng, there are very few people who have eliminated selfishness in our eyes. The essence of human beings is selfish. From this we can infer that human society is also selfish. Society is composed of human groups. As long as the group is properly classified in some way (such as dividing the entire Korean Peninsula society into Korean society and Korean society), the selfish side will undoubtedly be exposed.

The country is also selfish. There are only eternal interests between countries and no eternal friends (the same applies to people). There are too many facts to prove this view!

Selfishness is the instinct of human survival. Modern biology reveals that the human brain consists of three levels, and the innermost layer is the "reptile body", which is the brain structure left over from reptile animals. The various animal instincts that humans have mainly come from this reptile body.

The second layer is the "animal brain", also called the "animal new brain". It is wrapped outside the "reptile body". It is a brain structure left over from mammals and also provides the animal instincts that humans have.

The third layer is the cerebral cortex that people all know, which is wrapped outside the animal brain. The cerebral cortex is developed and formed based on the brain structure of primates and is a brain structure unique to humans with rational thinking functions.

The structure of the human brain determines that it is impossible for humans to completely remove the animal nature that they have in order to survive for themselves. This animal nature forces everyone to think about themselves first and dominate their actions no matter what they do.

When a person is hungry, the first thing he thinks about himself needs to eat food; when he is thirsty, the first thing he thinks about himself needs to drink water.

Under normal circumstances, no matter what everyone does, it is for themselves first.

Calling or demanding people to "be selfless and specialize in benefiting others" is neither practical nor difficult to do because it violates human nature.

Selfishness is people's instinct to continue their lives.

People are willing to live; and to live, they need food, clothing, housing and transportation. This is a problem that lies in front of everyone. How to solve their own food, clothing, housing and transportation? In other words, how to solve the supply and demand of food, rice, oil and salt, how to solve the congestion of family accommodation, how to solve the difficulties of children's lack of money in school, and where to earn more money must be considered by yourself;

If you don’t think about it, no one else can think about it for you. Because he also wants to support his family, he also needs to consider how to solve the problem of his family’s food, clothing, housing and transportation. He must bow to practice it.

He has no energy to consider your livelihood plan for you, he has no obligation or ability to support your family.

This is a fact that needs no argument.

In order to survive, you must strive for yourself, design yourself, and walk your own path.

In fact, every ordinary person lives like this.

In the sense of human nature, there has never been a person living for others in the world; therefore, there has never been a savior or a great savior in the world.

Selfishness is the instinct of competition between people.

So far, any society that has occurred in history is a society that cannot meet the needs of all members of society; therefore, it is also a society that forces people to compete.

The essence of competition is to strive for more material benefits for oneself.

As long as the material wealth of society cannot meet the needs of all members of society, competition will inevitably arise; as long as there is competition, human selfish nature will not change.
To be continued...