By nature, humans are selfish. And I would like to think everyone has accepted this by now. As much as we may care for those less fortunate, all we do is want and want. Helping someone brings you a feeling of accomplishment for helping someone...so you get something out of it...essentially making the original helping someone null and void.
One childish example that comes to mind is the whole advertising around Trix. "Trix are for kids" and the poor rabbit couldn't have any. The kids kept them to theirselves and wouldn't share. On a whole other level this advertising is showing kids that they shouldn't share but at the same time it is a very simple example to show the fact that once we get something that we could share, we don't want to.
Such as all the surplus food our country, and others, have. We keep it "on reserve" until it goes bad because we dont use it because we dont need it. We are just being selfish and keeping these products to ourself even if they would be of much better use to someone else. They are wasting away and doing NO ONE any good just sitting there going bad. This is one phenomenon of our country that no one could ever explain to me.
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