5. Murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery. “Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride,” declared President Benson (CR, April 1989, p. 5). The selfish proud, with enmity toward their fellowmen, see nothing wrong with resorting to selfish means to fulfill their desires and attain their ends. Prideful selfishness inevitably leads to other transgressions against one’s fellowman.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell declared: “Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.”