[PvK]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Greed:

n 1: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (esp material wealth) than one needs or deserves 2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Many actions do not fit the above definition. Eating a bowl of cereal in the morning is not greed. Eating 20 is.

Well, eating 20 bowls would be gluttony.

Greed would be having a million bucks, and buying all the cereal in your town so you can re-sell it to everyone for more than you paid for it, so you can have more than a million bucks. Some people might call that entrepreneurship, though.

Pax saying any action has elements of greed in it though, seem to me to be mistakenly thinking greed means simply the desire to improve one's position.

PvK

[ June 25, 2003, 20:36: Message edited by: PvK ]