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Egoism has a wide meaning. Some people call you egoistic because you wont share your candy, others call you egoistic because you really do not care a single bit about someone else. In my opinion there is a healthy and a bad kind of egoism. As you might have learned in a first aid course, noone can hold you responsible for not jumping into a fire to rescue someone. You, as little healthy egoist, dont want to get hurt or even die yourself. People will always try to be on the safe side. They'll effect insurances and lock the doors for a certain feeling of safety, too. The bad egoist will not aid a person that requires help, due to smallest reasons. "I cant help now because I am late already!" You may determine yourself to what degree you set the border between the little and bad egoist, but be aware others may have different measures too, and will respond respectively. Egoism alone can not be the reason for human failure. Greed, may be mainly based on egoism, is a bigger factor there.

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Sep 9, 2006 11:00:00 AM cite

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Abbas Beydoun: Of course we are responsible for that. When AIDS was spreading in Europe and USA, the people there were very scared and it was the main issue. Nowadays AIDS got less than before in Europe and in USA because of the education but it is still in Africa. We let People in Africa die because they do not have medicine or medical protection and they do not have enough education to protect themselves from this disease. We do not care about them and we let them die without real help... What a shame! AIDS is still there, I could say: world is still underdeveloped.

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Sep 9, 2006 11:00:00 AM cite

Alvaro Restrepo: Without any doubt, egoism plays a main role in human failure. In my opinion egoism is nothing else than blindness and I insist on this term that I used in my previous answers. Human race has to open its eyes and look at what is happening and at all the failures of humanity. Egoism is nothing else than silliness. We should see our planet as a body whose organs or countries depend from each other in order to guarantee the overall health of the global body. And than it´s obvious that there can´t be any privileged organ if the body is to survive. So I think human failure is connected to the fact that there are organs or countries believeing they can remain healthy while others are ill. We all depend from each other and we must fight against egoism. Furthermore solidarity is not just a walue but solidarity is essential in order to survive as a human race.

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Ana Lucy Bengochea: Well, in my opinion, egoism was created by the loss of our values. Due to the loss of values people become egoistic;everyone thinks of his or her own prosperity instead of thinking of others. It is very important to reintroduce our values, because only a humanity with values does not know egoism.

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