The superiority of man is his contemplative competence that ensures the quality of his steps at each point in life, contemplations that espouse harmony of co-habitation and engender stability in his public and private lives. The refusal to control greed around our decisions is the bane of our predicaments. The quest to gain advantage over others without moderation is the reoccurring element that deconstructs our social and corporate environment resulting in communal frictions. The misappropriation of these natural tendencies in our attitudes has caused catastrophic consequences that regularly destabilize our well-being. The result of which is the perpetuation of instability.
Greed is obsessive desire for more. It makes you want to keep gaining advantage over others above the required gauge for the satisfaction of a need without recourse to what becomes of other people’s well-being. Greed is the architect of selfishness, where the individual look more inwardly of the advantages he gains than what others desire too. Moderation is a balancing mechanism between two extremities- over-action and under-action. The deployment of moderating tendency neutralizes the inherent trait of man to continuously want to gain advantage over others. Man likes to dominate another man. Too bad! However, I cannot stop to think that negative tendencies exhibited by people before our eyes appear to define good tendencies in order to determine when getting over in our actions and retract or when lagging to push to the middle. Their interplay all together makes life meaningful. It also gives relevance to codes of conduct among the social human, it defines the basis for rules and regulations in our affairs and establishes the concreteness of the concept that life is activated and sustained through opposing forces.
Indeed, each man’s action is an internal expression of the appropriation or misappropriation of his intention. So there is a perpetual quest in each man to gain advantage of the little space provided by the competitive environment he dwells. Now, the danger is that without moderation, the stage will be set for bestiality and destruction. This nullifies the communal goal of human beings. Moderation means gaps or advantages permitted by the individual in an engagement to enable others fill or acquire a space to function. The permission of little space we give to ourselves enable each individual meet the basic survival needs in the society. The absence of balancing elements like moderation drives humans away from each other thus detaching the web that knit us together as social beings.
Therefore, a stable community permits the individual to operate functionally that, each soul draws from it in return to achieve survival. This is as much as the fact that only collective functional individuals form a stable society.
In appropriating each bit of one’s intention, options pop-up in man’s internal environment for the personal assessment of results of what he is about to do. Usually, the weighting proposes beneficiaries of the intended action namely: larger group consequence, immediate group consequence, my group consequence, and self. The large group houses the humanity, the world, the continent and religion. The immediate group comprises of the sub-continent, race, country, and local state. My group takes the ethnicity and tribe, distant biological relations, neighbours, social, business, professional affiliates, and chance-meets. Self, translate to my child, spouse, mother father and me. These perpetual bumps sprout on a mental traveller’s road that makes him wobble later if greed takes control of him. But, if moderation does, the road becomes smooth even with the bumps.
Each soul encounters these growths when taking decisions. They are discretely sequential and naturally programmed as options that create beauty and ratings. They identify the individual as a good man or bad man, honourable or dishonourable, greedy, selfish or generous after he has acted upon his decisions. What an individual stands for is moulded by his experiences in life. Therefore, under a universal appeal, the options are one in their essence but locations around the world exert influences to change their forms on their true meaning such that many a time, misrepresentations, misconceptions arises to cause frictions. Therefore, humanity, religion, and education become principal moderators of the dangerous consequences of the mutilations caused in the society. The world must note the difference between the individual adherents of these beliefs and concepts and their true teachings because characters can selfishly manipulate them to cause instability in the community.