Does good karma create Self-Centrism?

[jean-luc]

So we have to desire to do good, which means we're only satisfying our own petty desires, thus we're feeding our selfishness. It's all quite cyclical.

[SkyPanda]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that the use of the word "desire" here is a wish for personal benefit. Eliminating all desire in its normal definition, now that would be pointless.

This point also occured to me, but i resisted the temptation to say it because it seemed bleeding obvious. Isn't the whole concept of freeing oneself from desire based on the premise that it is not the desire that is bad, but rather the object of the desire?