| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Packratt,)
There are people in this world who suffer from a group of mental disorders termed Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, or, 'OCD'. The people who suffer from this imbalanced brain chemistry exhibit irrationally obsessive or compuslive behaviour patterns irregardless as to whether they are harmfull to one's self or others.
For example, the person who suffers from an OCD might wash his or her hands repeatedly until the skin is raw with open wounds and prone to infection. One might repeatedly march up and down the stairs or flip a light switch off and on more times than necessary because of a counting obsession.
An OCD, by it's own nature, is a compulsion to do what is not necessary or what is MORE than necessary despite the rational consequence to self or others.
Greed, by it's definition, is the desire to accumulate more than what is necessary or good for oneself. One who is greedy for food, a glutton, desires more food than might be good for his or her self, often to that person's own detriment... Certainly one could suggest that a glutton could be suffering from a mild form of OCD or some cousin thereof.
So what of the greedy hoarder of wealth who seeks to gather more than one could possibly use in several lifetimes? The one who gathers massive wealth often at the cost of others and without regard to the pain and suffering caused in the process, without regard to the cost to oneself and others in the pursuit of greed?
Could it not be said of the greedy that they are so obsessed with wealth that they cannot stop despite the rational consequences? Do they suffer from an illness similar to OCD?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Why do you call OCD an illness?
Some people simply ARE ocd...so what? Are they sick? I guess you think so... |