Selfishness Virus

There is a fine line between enjoying food and being a glut.
How do we enjoy the activity called EATING, when we have overfilled the stomach bag? It's like filling up a ziplock bag till the bag cannot be zipped! When we overeat, it causes discomfort - the glass is filled to the brim and just one tiny drop more would cause it to spill over.
People who do that have no sense of control and probably have the same tendencies towards everything that they do - going overboard.
Is it necessary to stuff our faces till we feel sick?
The same goes for drinking.
When we drink till we're drunk, then that's a problem. BUT if we consume just one glass of wine, then we are savouring the flavour in the glass.
This brings us to Quantity vs Quality.
There will always be the Quantity people, people who think going to a buffet means stuffing yourself till you need a trolley to remove you from the table. Same with filling the car with petrol. If the tank is full, it's full. Some drivers have gone overboard by tilting the car with some wedge, so that the tank can take in more petrol.
This behaviour is not a result of economic progress. It's what happens when we pay attention to getting ahead at the expense of others. So much so that only WE, ourselves matter and only US. It's selfish and once ingrained, difficult to backtrack and fix.
You may think, what does petrol have to do with selfishness.
It's not in the action, but what causes that action. The mind must first be selfish, before the person is able to behave that way. And because the mind is ill with selfishness, there is no resistance and all subsequent behaviours will just fall into place and the result, a totally selfish person who puts himself first all the time without realising that some may be damaging to his well-being.
BUT again, that isn't quite accurate, because if a person collapsed - he doesn't care, because he EXPECTS someone else - care-giver, health care worker, to take care of him....so you see, selfishness is as virul as the next epidemic of bird flu.