The Side of Pride in Hide

Is being proud a sin? Is it morally wrong to be proud?

Firstly, I’ll try to understand what pride is. To be proud of something –as I figure- is to feel happy, and impressed, and satisfied, and hold great value to, and think important of something attributed to an individual.  If you’re dealing with the technical description of pride, perhaps that would be close. Using that perspective of the term “pride”, there seems to be little to no negative attribute to pride. But, sometimes alternatively to a technicality, there is reality. The description of a term in reality is only what that term is interpreted as, by whoever is relevant. So, as my best guess of the interpretation of the term, in relation to who is relevant, the specific description of pride also adds an additional attribute with a more distinctive connotation. In my best guess, the additional connotation to pride from common perception would be holding greater value to something attributed to that individual, than others.

Its my theory that this aspect of holding greater value to a personal tribute, than the equivalent tribute potentially of others, is what brings the negative aspect to pride. In regards to being a sin, this makes sense, considering –at least by my understanding- the most general and vastly applicable condition God wants us to live by, is basically to love others as you love yourself, or in an alternate understandable perspective, hold equivalent great value to all as you do for yourself. Therefore being proud would be in violation of this condition, by considering ones personal possession or essence of being, of greater value than others.

That being from a religious perspective, and to try to understand it fairly from all perspectives –as I try to do for the sake of open-mindedness, and indiscriminateness- there is also the view of someone non-religious, which from all my findings and experiences, always seems to be virtually equivalent in concluding meaning and understanding.

In that regard, being morally wrong (or for purpose of attempted… simplicity of my understanding of what morality means; doing something with an unnecessarily, universally negative impact), considering yourself (or something personally regarded as yours) to be more valuable than someone else, is unfair, unjust ideology, and therefore morally wrong.

This can also be understood from an even less specific and more universally applicable perspective (which is often what I aim for in an attempt for complete equivalent consideration of perceiver), by trying to view the key values and aspects of what is in question, in a less specific manor. And in that regard, any alternate unknown variable value (someone else) should be theoretically equivalent from a completely unbiased perspective. Therefore, pride would be a mathematically intellectual inaccuracy (in robot terms).

So in conclusion, as I just worked out to understand myself, being proud seems to legitimately have negative connotation from all perspectives, when considering pride as the commonly perceived term, of holding greater value to ones own, than others.