I don't feel that greed is inherently bad. I believe it may be one of the keys to our survival. The idea of wanting more and more to make sure that we will always have enough. I think the problem may come from understanding what is enough and what we truly need enough of. Greed for greeds sake, I believe is a bad thing and only leads to destruction. Greed for things that are not really essential, for me that includes money, also only leads to destruction. I believe that the latter, destructive side of greed, is what gets discussed more often and listed as one of the deadly sins in the Christian bible.
I thought about this topic while watching squirrels collect and bury their food around my backyard. They grab as much as they can, going fact time and time again getting whatever food they can, eating most of it but occasionally burying some. It seems that they never seem to have enough. I can understand eating everyday but the burying seems to be beyond that. It's like they have a need to be 'greedy' based on surviving. I think the thing I don't know is does all that burying help in the days ahead. Do the squirrels remember where they bury all this stuff? If not, do they just assume that they will be able to run across it later. Are they thinking that no other squirrel or animal will find what they hide?
If they never find or go back to what they have hidden then they are just removing food that they could or another squirrel could eat. This view would lead to a negative few of greed since it benefits no one and if fact could be very detrimental to the squirrel and the immediate animals that may need that food.
So a conclusion can be made that greed can be considered bad if it doesn't get used and is only hoarded away never to be seen again.
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