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Envy

Prompt: Although envy is one of the deadly sins, do you believe it may somehow hide a redeeming quality inside?

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I think there are degrees of envy, but no one ever bothered to categorize them. It is true that jealousy and covetousness permeate envy, but there is also that side of it that makes a person think, if so and so is doing something so right, maybe I can do it, too. or that person is so talented; I wish I could do that, too! I think this side of envy may be its redeeming quality.

Most envy is secret. Only in that part of it that leads to crime or in the words of the envying person, envy comes out into the open.

Positive envy rejoices in human achievement; on the other hand, negative envy is the deadly one, especially the kind that attempts to stop, undo, or mar the achievements of another.