cmv: There is nothing wrong with being shallow and materialistic, because secretly , everyone is

Moderation in all things.

Yes, everyone appreciates the things they find beautiful and enjoys receiving gifts and pampering themselves now and then. But not everyone takes those things to harmful extremes. I'm not going to call a guy shallow for wanting a girlfriend he finds physically attractive, but if he starts treating anyone he considers unattractive contemptuously... yeah, that's shallow. Likewise, I'm not going to condemn a woman for appreciating the giant rock her fiancé put on her ring finger, but if she demands it and places its price tag above the actual human relationship the ring represents, that's materialistic.

There's a question of degree, and sharing certain qualities with shallow or materialistic people doesn't mean you share all of them. If being shallow means A, B, and C together, but you only have A and B, you're not shallow.

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