2007-12-26 02:42:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
yes and no.
yes because you can love something to the point where you desire it. and then if you desire it enough and see someone who already has it, then you envy it. in rare cases, people have envied someone enough to the point where they just killed them to get rid of that envy.
no because you can love something just enough where you adore it, but don't desire it. if you don't desire something, you can't envy someone who has it already, and therefore you can't kill someone you envy.
2007-12-26 03:15:24 · answer #1 · answered by AG Bellamy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a slightly far fetched nonsensical presupposition.
Desire is a want, a momentary need.
Envy is a greed, a covetousnes, that one cannot aquire with any degree of success and is thereby rendered to the hellish state of jealousy and obsession thereof.
There are many reasons for the extinguishing of anothers life. Envy leads the individual along many paths, sometimes murder, or a character assasination, or the destruction of anothers life and good fortune. It has many variables and outcomes, not always the ending of anothers life.
2007-12-26 03:25:58 · answer #2 · answered by VAndors Excelsior™ (Jeeti Johal Bhuller)™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - you're equivocating reductively. Love may be to desire, but to desire is not to envy. To envy is to want what another has, and to love is to desire that other, or happiness for that other. To envy is to wish yourself in their place.
Further, to envy is not to kill - one may envy in a good natured way. To envy is not to covet - that's the more malicious cousin of envy: jealousy. But even jealously is not manifest in act. It may exist apart from actualization in act as actiualization in mind.
So, er, no.
2007-12-26 04:36:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Not at all.
To love is to care for the well being and happiness of another.
Desire is different. It's the difference between saying, "I love you and want what's best for you," and "I love how you make me feel." The first is true love, the second is selfish desire. Most relationships are a mix of both, but only the first is genuine, imho.
The rest of your statement just doesn't follow. A.K.A. non-sequitur.
2007-12-26 03:36:21 · answer #4 · answered by Sophrosyne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not love, what you are talking about is Judgment. A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-12-26 03:08:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have gotten it wrong! to love is to give. When we desire we should know whom we are, therefore we should also be aware of the most high GOD within, and in this effect there is no envy or lust, but without the most high GOD the heart is full of the most despicable things; such as envy, hate, lust fornication, jealousy, murder, and many others.
2007-12-26 05:00:43 · answer #6 · answered by Marsha B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! Love isn't necessarily to desire and to envy isn't necessarily to kill. I think you blew this a little out of proportion.
2007-12-26 06:32:03 · answer #7 · answered by Rina 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no.....love is not to desire only, desire is only envy if jealousy is involved and envy in noway is to kill. the whole sequence is flawed and non sequitur
2007-12-26 02:52:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, right from the start. I love someone but I don't have to possess, be jealous or kill. None of those things leads to any of the others.
2007-12-26 02:49:18 · answer #9 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the basic animalistic truth. With higher evolved spiritual beings, it does not hold water...
2007-12-26 18:03:43 · answer #10 · answered by P'quaint! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋