Selfish ideologies

Selfish ideologies are correlated with selfish behavior, or encourage it. It may be possible to quantify the degree of selfish conduct encouraged by an ideology. A name for this quantity could be the "selfish metric."

Characteristics of selfish ideologies include:

• reduced donations to charity, as a percentage of wealth or in absolute terms
• disproportionately large spending of taxes paid by others
• lack of charitable group activities, such as building hospitals, volunteering to teach, raising children (including adoptive and foster), and helping the less fortunate
• imposition of the self-interested desires of a few on a larger group in a manner that interferes with their enjoyment or values, as in a heckler's veto
• encouragement of self-centered, destructive behavior that causes harm to society or others

The first two points are easily quantifiable. The third and fourth points can also quantified, though less easily so.