The Selfishness of Humans.

Been a while hasn't it? This is a topic that plagues my mind, I think about it all the time, and reading another blogger's opinions on it inspired me to write something again. The topic of today being: How Humans are Inherently Selfish. (I get the feeling this isn't going to be an overly angry rant, just my own ideas)

Now, the idea that humans are selfish can be seen at any level of society, personally I tend to see selfishness everywhere, even charity is just making yourself feel that you have done something worthwhile and easing your social conscience... but the way I most often think about the idea (and how I am thinking of it now) is on a much, much larger scale.
We are the dominant species of the only planet that has 'intelligent' life on it in the entire universe (as far as we know).. we are an anomaly as far as the universe is concerned... and this is what we have done with that. We are slowly but surely raping our planet, we have crime.... lets stop on that for a moment.. think about the fact that we have crime. How unspeakably awful is it that we live in a world where a mother has a justifiable fear that if she takes her child to the grocery store, he/she could be kidnapped. That is what we did with the gift of existence.

It's a tough topic to think about, once you get stuck thinking about selfishness you begin to see it everywhere. The fact that we have a political compass, to me, is a great example. People want someone in power who they think will do what is best for them, rather than what is best for the country.. but, of course, they don't see any difference between 'them' and 'the country'. Humans, for whatever reason, lack the ability to see that 'the country' is made up of people just like them, each with their own complex problems that no one else understands, their own prejudices and ideals, their own thoughts on what will save the world, and each with the idea that their problems and needs are the most important in the world.