Air, water and food literally make up the cells that we refer to as “I”. An acknowledgment that a polluted environment equates to a polluted mind and body is a truth that will help us overcome certain self destructive behaviours.
In a world where life relies on homeostasis, moderation is essential. Addiction, mental illness and disease can all be attributed to an excess or deficiency of something. Love is the exception; more only enhances one’s life where too little diminishes it.
Religious crimes, Nazi crimes, North Korean crimes, etc; the killings, the genocides, the tortures, all committed against humanity in the name of some belief as being acceptable is the antithesis of humanism.
Entitlement--the belief that you should benefit from rights, institutions, or other benefits you would deny to others--deprives those others of the full participation in the civil systems you construct, disenfranchises others, and leads to harm.