Since jealousy and greed are related closely, jealousy must obviously be a
source or root of evil.
I am not so much interested in defining evil as identifying
the cause of evil, these I have boiled down to greed, envy and jealousy. Indeed
I believe that envy and jealousy are actually aspects of greed. Behind any
behavior that could possibly be considered evil is the root of greed and its
expression as naked greed, or greed disguised as envy or jealousy.
Sometimes of course greed is difficult to identify, for
example when many people (including BHO in my humble opinion) start to talk
about giving to the poor they rarely intend that they should give to the poor
but are somewhat more like Judas Iscariot who had his hand in the money bag of Jesus.
I say that even if they may not be stealing money for their own enrichment, for
when they use the power of the government to take money from one person to give
to another in order to appear to be generous they at minimum steal the accolade
that would go with such a gift if they had not stepped between the ‘donor’ and
the ‘recipient.’
However since BHO is running the money through the
government chances are that at more than one level there are people who are
diverting some of it to their own enrichment. This is on top of the fact that
government ‘charity’ rarely does anything other than to increase the dependency
of its recipient. While the increasing control this gives stokes the appetite of
the government for ever greater power (which is one objective of some strains
of greed) over all aspects of life.
© 2012 Vic Jones
