What is greed? In simple words, the want of something is known as greed. It is a desire to have more than what is needed. Greed is the direct opposite of contentment. It makes a person feel that something is missing, something is less. It does not allow a person to feel satisfied. The person always feels that he has less than what he deserves. Greed can vary from a small want to a really large wish. But is greed just an escapee from the Pandora’s box that has destroyed the world? Yes, it is true that greed has led to the destruction of man but can greed not be a method to the construction of man. If greed has destroyed something, can it not be that greed has brought it back again.
At present greed of man for money has led to making and selling illegal nuclear arms and ammunition attacking another country, building millions of factories, killing millions of innocent people and much more. This has caused pollution, unhappiness, anxiety, and much more. Now, people are feeling bad for what they have done, they wish to get their old life back. The greed to have things the way they were before, where there was only happiness and no fear, has caused man to make amends. They cannot change what they have done but they can surely make amends and stop doing it. When a thief is caught, the want of not being sent to jail, leads him to surrender. The terrorist who killed millions of people do not wish to lose their life and hence surrender. The greed for life has caused him to stop doing what he did. If the greed for money has led to destruction of man, the greed of life has led to the construction of a better man.
Greed is portrayed as a bad quality but if this bad quality has worked out for a good cause, how is it a bad quality? If the want of good marks makes a student study properly, then how is the greed bad? It has finally changed the life of the student for the better. It is greed that has caused the progress of man. If the world had no greed at all, it would...