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To: GraceZ who wrote (13691)	3/28/2009 11:29:39 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

What set me off (on another thread) was this Ann Coulter piece "Gordon Geko is a democrat" : Message 25527205 It's easier to recognize greed when your enemy is exhibiting it. I'm not interested in greed as something that justifies government regulation. GOD no! If it were up to me I'd slash the Federal budget 75% overnight. I'm more interested in the public relations aspect. Defiantly proclaiming that greed is good does the cause of free markets no favor. Anyone you are trying to influence with rhetoric like that knows greed is bad and is only further convicted that people like us need to be reined in.

To: GraceZ who wrote (13691)	3/28/2009 12:34:30 PM
From: grusum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

here's another definition for greed.. "greed is the FEAR of not getting or keeping something one doesn't need and/or have a right to, or getting or keeping it with violence".. violence being physical or non-physical. non-physical violence can be 'running away'.. example of greed... you need an antidote for some malady that you and other people have. there isn't enough for everyone. but you take the antidote anyway. you have committed violence on the others who need the antidote too. your act was greedy. non-greed.. the antidote will only work for you, or there is more than enough for everyone. you need the antidote and take it. you have violated no one, and your act wasn't greedy. since gates earned his money, he wasn't greedy in taking it. he has the right to keep it too... but i don't know how violent he is in keeping it..

To: GraceZ who wrote (13691)	3/29/2009 12:39:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

Greed is easily defined - it's when somebody takes more than is good for them. Nature is excellent at defining such things even if people have trouble with the concepts. Nature simply kills them off if they take more than is good for them. Like irrational exuberance, it's not easy to identify greed until after the event. When the person dies, we can look back and say, yes, that was greed. If they are fat and happy until hit by the proverbial truck when they 110, we can reasonably say they were not greedy even if they weighed 140 kg and couldn't walk up stairs or even get out of bed. A fat greedy person scarfing down another bacon and sausage pie and nutritionally bereft, while they choke back 30 fags a day, is not long for this world. <excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves <<How can we define how much a person needs or deserves and what is excessive?>> > While it might be difficult to get it just right, each individual had better do a reasonable job of defining how much they need and deserve or they are likely to run into fatal problems. "We" don't need to bother with what other people do in regard to themselves, but if they are taking from us more than we find tolerable, it's time to get the pitch forks and sickles and head for the palace and provide a morality lesson in "greed" to the rulers and courtiers. I'm sure you spend a good portion of time figuring out for yourself what is greedy and what is not. I do. Greed is the root of all evil, not money, or the love of it. Mqurice