No New Tale to Tell

The Pardoner's Tale was about how three greedy men searched for Death and eventually met him after being sidetracked by their encounter with gold. When they first found the gold under the oak tree, they all decided that they will split the gold and live the rest of their lives without having to do any work. While the youngest of the three went to town to fetch bread and wine to celebrate their discovery, the other two discussed with one another about killing the youngest so they can split their gold amongst the two. As the two talked under the oak tree, the guy who went to town had an idea that was greedier. He wanted the gold all to himself. He stops by a pharmacist and buys rat poison from him.After this, he bought wine and added poison to two of the three bottles. When he got back to the oak tree, the other two killed him. Then they sat down to drink their wine and they died.
The main motif in this story is obviously greed. All three of them got what they had coming for them because of their greed. The two under the oak tree were thinking about killing the youngest one just so they could get more gold. The youngest one was thinking of poisoning the other two so he could get all the gold for himself! If this is not the definition of selfishness, I don't know what it. This applies to our current society because I think that things like this happens constantly. People will kill one another for money. One thing that we can hope is that they will get what is coming for them if they do commit a crime of such.