 When we move from real love to selfishness, it turns us away from that self-giving love that would draw us to help other people around us. And he says that a person who becomes selfish, even if it seems it's just a small matter, if we begin with little ways of becoming absorbed in ourselves, it eventually gives way to a form of cruelty that will ultimately manifest itself in many forms of harm to others and many failures to reach out to the good of another. You know, anytime we look at widespread patterns of corruption, of stealing from others, of extortion, of abuse, of using another in an abusive way, that began with some turning in on self.