"HeyBub" writes:

wrote:
"HeyBub" writes:

Jack Stein wrote:

Greed is a word made up by man that defines excessive desire.
Desire is fine, excessive desire is not. Desire = good, excessive
desire = bad.

Okay, I'll play. In what way(s) is "excessive desire" bad?

It's a definition. Greed = bad.

Please forward an accepted definition where greed is a synonym for bad. A
common definition is: "an excessive desire to acquire or possess more
(especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves; avaricious:
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth."

As other posters have explained, all those words, excessive, avaricious,
immoderate, have a negative (bad) connotation.

Sort of like we don't say subservient when we mean respectful.

Uh, no one says "subservient" when they mean "respectful." They are two
different things.

I can be subservient even when I don't respect the judge for hitting me with
a fine and I can be respectful of the president even while vigorously
rejecting his demands.

Sounds like you haven't kept up with the news:

http://tinyurl.com/3t97wgd

Appearing on "Face the Nation" Sunday, Rep. Michele Bachmann stood by
her comment in Thursday's Republican debate, insisting that when she
said wives should be submissive to their husbands, she meant that
married couples should have mutual respect.

--
Dan Espen