Your Interests vs. the Interests of Others
Because of his self-interest and need to survive, an individual may come into conflict with another person at some point during his life. Conflict of interests will emerge between the interests of the self and the interests of others. These disagreements may escalate, and those involved may even harm each other. If the spirituality in a person surpasses his materialistic needs, tranquility and resolution of disputes will replace strife, grudges and darkness. Corporeal subjects and materialistic needs have led the world toward dissolution and harm and will continue to do so. This notion proves the supremacy of materialism over spirituality. Even though most of the harm and the losses in the world originate from the differences in mental capacities, temptations, whims, egoisms, narcissisms, greed, and indulgences, it is possible to say that in the path of life, people may stumble upon points where such collisions seem inevitable. As in the interactions among natural phenomena, sometimes the actions of an agent may bring harm to another. For example, the skin of a drum is always hit by a drumstick. That is its duty and destiny, and it has no choice but to get hit. The drumstick also has no choice but to hit the drum’s skin. Similarly, a hammer that crushes stones has no other choice.