I wanted to start this discussion long ago, thanks for bringing it into play.

I'll challenge *anyone to come up with a situation where pride is "looked down" upon in this society of so called puritans (at least conservatives). Commercial marketing attacks these *seven "sins" with a bellows designed to flame them into the towering inferno's they've become.

Where would pride be without envy?
Where would sloth be without gluttony?
Where would avarice be without greed?

Lust stands alone as the one that is truly not a sin.