Oscar Wilde Selfishness

Oscar Wilde said “selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” That said, the Puritans were a very religious group of people who wished to escape religious persecution in order to spread their beliefs to others. Their hatred and enmity of both the church was so great they could no longer stay in England. In their point of view, there was nothing wrong with what they did at all. Their reason for leaving was religious freedom, but their way of thinking was mean and inconsiderate. For people that felt attacked and persecuted for following a certain religion, they were certainly did not show any empathy towards others who had views opposing theirs. In other words, they did not treat others

They wished to continue the reformation of the church until everybody lived by their values, but there were multiple people who wanted different things for the church. The division of the church was extraordinarily complex and their views were only one part of it. Wishing that the church could be united with their practices is acceptable, but wishing death upon people who disagree is barbaric. Instead of accepting that they were much too powerless to convince all of England to move further with reforming the church, they decided to travel elsewhere, and, if they thought it was necessary, murder a group of people who also disagreed with them so they could finally be the dominating religion. They blindly listened to men who said that their god was going to give them land by “waging war on the inhabitants.” They looked up to someone who thought it was acceptable to kill the natives of the land like stepping on an ant. However, they would not question this way of thinking even if they found it a little bit violent because they were scared that their “prayers would be turned into curses.” However, they continued on their journey without questioning the fact that they carelessly tossed around human beings like toys. The current beliefs of the majority in the 21st century explain that there is no humane way to

They didn’t just want the land; they expected the natives to give it to them and leave their homes behind with nowhere to go. The Indians worked hard to make a home for themselves there. They had built houses and organized their way of life the way they wanted it to be. The Puritans could have traveled to a place uninhabited by natives so they could have avoided the unnecessary intrusion. Nevertheless, the Puritans arrived and carelessly intruded without any invitation whatsoever. They believed that taking the Indian’s land was acceptable because a man on a boat said that “they neither need to buy it nor ask for permission.” The only validation that quote had was from the Bible which explains people should completely disregard all of the feelings they have for others who do not believe the same things as they