meme. sort of.

[julie_dslv]

Stolen from lost_kite. Take the 7 Deadly Sins, rank them in my opinion of overall deadliness, and give a brief explanation (both positive and negative).

lost_kite seems to have taken a social approach to this, but I'm going to take a personal one.

7. Lust: I don't even know why this is even considered a deadly sin anymore. I don't see how lust plays out

Comments

[sbertie]

I don't know, I sort of think they're all on that list for a reason. I think that the way we use these words in a general, colloquial sense might make them seem not so bad (like lust), as compared the the "stricter" meaning of the sins, if that makes sense.

For me, my personal biggest one is without a doubt, pride. I think every bad thing I've ever done sort of stems from an unhealthy amount of pride. :/

WELL THAT WAS FUN!!!! lol

[julie_dslv]

Like I said, I took a personal approach, not a Biblical one, and ranked them accordingly. But I know what you mean.

lol YEAH DEADLY SINS ARE FUN LET'S COMMIT THEM AND GLOAT!

[sbertie]

lol YEAH DEADLY SINS ARE FUN LET'S COMMIT THEM AND GLOAT!
as long as Kevin Spacey is NO WHERE to be found. I don't want Morgan Freeman to find my head in a box or something.

[julie_dslv]

Hahaha I was totally like "what does kevin have to do with deadly sins" and then I remembered!

How could I ever forget about one of the greatest movies ever?

[ex_lost_kit]

Greed denotes desire to acquire wealth or possessions beyond the needs of the individual

We economists are wary to draw a hard line between "needs" and.. whatever else. The main problem is if you draw up a bunch of items as "necessities", and then you see people willingly trading these necessities away for non-necessities... what does this mean? Clearly these people don't consider them as necessary as the items we're trading for. Are they just stupid or something?

That's why we just draw up a hierarchy of wants ("ordinal preferences") which allow people to form their own preferences without judging them. If you want to argue that anyone who trades away a necessity isn't acting in their own best interest, that's a pretty big uphill battle I think.

[julie_dslv]

Again, I was coming from a personal POV, not a social or socio-economic one.

That's why we just draw up a hierarchy of wants ("ordinal preferences") which allow people to form their own preferences without judging them. If you want to argue that anyone who trades away a necessity isn't acting in their own best interest, that's a pretty big uphill battle I think.If I understand correctly, you're taking the object of someone's greed, rather than the greedy himself, in which case I can't see your point

[ex_lost_kit]

Yea, I basically made up my own definitions of the terms, which in retrospect probably suck, so I can understand people disagreeing with what constitutes a certain sin, which I think is what you're doing. So yea.