THE SELFISH GENE

I do have several opinions about Dawkin's selfish gene, but thats not what this is about.This post is dedicated to all selfish people out there!!!

Recently,i read a book( a superb one,if u must know) about a family whose members have only one thing in common-selfishness.They live for money and they die for it. Correction:they are grotesquely killed for it.

This got me thinking. How can we define a boundary for our activities,when the slightest provocation can term it unaltruistic?is it really necessary for all our ways,methods and decisions to be governed by what others consider selfish? infact,arent we all motivated by OUR life,OUR food,OUR health,OUR fun? Even the social workers who rein in the title of altruists,work for their OWN satisfaction.

As, Joey says to Phoebe,there is no unselfish act. We are all selfish,we are ruthless,we aim to further OUR cause.And no,that doesnt make us monsters.But in my quest to understand certain glaringly obvious truths,i realised that there is a very thin line between mere selfishness and one single shove,(or maybe just a slight nudge) is all that it takes to send a person across ,to the other end-where the 'self' controls every single action,bordering on inhumanity.

The book focusses on this border,and it is amusing to see how people teeter and ultimately fall through.However to see it in real life( courtesy:Anna university) is not at all gratifying.

But,in all probabilities ,we have an immune system which can stomach such malignancies and which( horrifyingly) can push us over the brink.

GOD SAVE US.