The mother of all sins

Reproduction as a process for evolution and progress has become such an integral part of our social systems that even traits like lust and envy are being multiplied. Although the physical source stays the same, that is humans, but the mother of these baby sins is the same characteristic of humans that has infested the socio-economic system, greed. The root cause of almost all the sins end up leading to greed being the culprit.

Not only this extreme desire of want can shake the economic bridge of the fellow humans in the community, but also can end up in many kinds of mutations. I would like to call them unhealthy resistant mutations the cure to which is becoming more and more difficult to develop. In my previous blogs I have talked a lot about how greed can lead to illegitimate desires of  wanting more and more monetary benefits leading to a successful human but ultimately shaking the foundations of the rest of the social group to which he/ she belongs. Now let's talk about the offsprings greed can generate. For example, envy can be called the most common mutation of greed leading to desire more, compete more and of course accumulate more. It is so common that it affects almost 100 percent of the population to a level that it can actually drain a person of his peace. "There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment, and there is no greater disaster than greed", Lao Tzu. Envy can be branded as a psychological state discontentment.

Another version of greed is accumulation. The same desire for accumulation can reduce the fear of loss but an unguarded desire to accumulate more and more can ultimately lead to the parent sin of greed at its worse manifesting as undue stacking of monetary and other possessions which will ultimately to a limited extend gratify one and knowingly or unknowingly shaking the balance of economic distribution in the society. Throughout history we have seen people die to become rich and finally if it does happen to someone it is not always the best thing that happened to them. "There are only two tragedies in life; one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it “Oscar Wilde.

Another heinous form of greed is sexual lust. Originally incorporated in human beings as a means of human reproduction and also to some extent an expression of love, it has mutated to a criminal level of rapes, adultery and unfaithfulness cultivating in deactivating family systems. The number of rapes per year in many countries has risen to an alarming level. Another offspring of greed is fraud. Fraud is the daughter of greed. - Jonathan Gash, The Great California Game. Most of the fraudulent acts in any part of the world usually involve money.

However there is a kind of greed that is not harmful instead is very fruitful if utilized the right way. It is the greed for truth and knowledge. This rare kind of greed is the only kind not sought by humans since there is always a natural attraction towards the evil.