What is your personal definition of the word “Enemy”?

Question

I am doing a paper on different definitions of the word “Enemy”. I don’t want dictionary definitions (unless they are exotic) because I can look them up on my own. I am using this part of the paper for “other peoples personal definitions” So if you can include maybe your; religion, race, gender, age, province, other personal info, or best all of these. It would make you a better source because of the diversity and citation. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!

Answer 1

Enemy:
His name is Douglas J. Reyer, Jr., my ex-husband.
He's 5' 10" tall, dark blonde hair, blue eyes, resembles a young Adoph Hitler. I never realized this until recently.
Very abusive towards women & children. Extremely jealous. Very demanding.Violent. Many scrapes with the law, no convictions. Hardship discharge from the U.S. Army or so he said. I suspect otherwise. Southern, White, Born-Again Fanatic, D.O.B. 02/23/1948, currently lives in Mississippi.
Attempted to kill me on several occassions.
As far as I'm concerned, HE IS THE ENEMY!!!!

Answer 2

The word "enemy" is like "good" or "evil" - they are relativistic concepts.

There is no absolute "good" and there is no absolute "enemy." One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. One country's enemy is another country's president.

So an "enemy" is an entity (person, idea or representation of either such as a country or religion) that threatens a person's personal preferences and desires. Enemies do not exist except in the mind of a person who chooses to have an enemy.

The idea of an absolute enemy - or a person who manifests absolute "evil" - does not exist. To say that one does exist is to deny that the person in question has any motivations, feelings or thought process. While we may have very strong, negative feelings about the actions of someone like Adolf Hitler, to say that he was "evil" is to be blind to the motivations and reasons behind his actions. And if we are comfortable in that kind of ignorance, then we won't take the necessary steps to prevent it happening again.
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Answer 3

A person with whom you share mutual dislike and wish to thwart in some way for personal or categorical reasons. So there can be people I really don't like who I wouldn't call enemies because we have no intention of causing each other problems. Every now and then there are people who I basically like, but I want to interfere with their goals or they want to interfere with mine because we have a conflict; those aren't enemies either. (29 yr old agnostic white female originally from Ontario)

Answer 4

An enemy is any person who wants to do me harm in any way.

I am a Christian, white, female, 62 and live in California, USA.

Answer 5

To me an enemy is simply someone or a group that is working actively against you. And, you are working actively against them as well.

Answer 6

An enemy to me is either a.) someone who acts contrary to god, or b.) wants to see me fail at something I want to succeed at.

I'm 23,m,Hispanic-Black, NY, college student

Answer 7

anyone who is not with me, is against me. thus they are my enemies. pretty simple.
(religion: not sure, race: hispanic-peruvian, not mexican. 18. oregon. and im a total star wars nerd.)

Answer 8

a man, beast, force of nature, or object that directly inhibits or limits my primary or secondary goal or purpose

Answer 9

just a friend who doesnt like you and is mean to you all the time

Answer 10

Someone who wants to do you harm.