bradamant says:

Dear Tom,
Greed….that’s one of the vices, along with lust and pride and envy, isn’t it? I don’t have a car anymore because someone else decided either they wanted it more or that I didn’t need it. First, they sabotaged the car so that it wouldn’t run and then it just disappeared. After it broke down, I called a local charity to donate it. The charity either fixes up the car for resale or sells it for scrap. But my car disappeared before the charity actually picked it up. I telephoned them after the fact to ask whether everything was okay and no one, and I mean no one had any idea of what I was talking about. No one had picked up my car because it wasn’t there.
So is it greedy to want a car? Or is it more greedy to steal someone else’s car? Would you consider it greedy to break someone else’s property to get what you want or is that just a kind of immature selfishness? And how does lust figure into the whole scenario? Is it even greedier to break someone else’s property then steal it so that you can play hero to the woman who is determined to leave you because she’s sick of all the lies……ooooh, is lying a vice?