In Response to Bryan's Question

Bryan posed the question, "Do you think that the Human sense of self causes problems within society?"

People do tend to regard their own needs and wants before those of others. I think that though we would like to believe that people have eachothers interests at heart, it is more likely that people have a greater sense of self than a sense of society. Society can band together as has been seen with relief efforts like the recent events for Haiti, but it seems to take a great disaster for people to put their own self and interests aside and help those in need.

This does cause problems within society as it takes something horrible happening to bring people together...otherwise saying that we wait for things to deteriorate and get worse before we fix them.

My question is...can a person who has their own sense of self and and their family in mind, resent others who may be more fortunate than them?