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Seven new deadly sins: 3) Narcissistic myopia

This post is part of the Research Digest’s Sin Week. Each day for Seven days we’ll be posting a confession, a new sin and a way to be good.

09 February 2011

By Christian Jarrett

Tim Kasser at Knox College, Illinois, says Narcissistic Myopia is the tendency to be short-sighted and self-centred:

...taking whatever one wants now and forgetting that future generations of humans rely on the current generation to leave them a habitable world.