text: how can we eliminate once and for all greed, desire for power and fear?   you would need to eliminate all living things. these exist in the animal and plant kingdoms. without life none of these traits could exist. without these traits the world would be a much calmer place to live...or would it? aggressive (and passive aggressive) traits serve many purposes, one of the most important being survival, but also to help keep natural balance. without these traits the population of the world would have been unbearable a long time ago. instead of trying to eliminate these traits, we should probably be looking for ways to cope with them and use them to our own advantage.