Jealousy and envy are useless, outdated emotions that only serve to hurt people you care about and your relationships with them. Agree or disagree?
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Zandalee.Lonely.Lunatic.3yrs-here
ANSWERS: 16
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For the most part, I agree. But they are human emotions and as such, are hard to change.
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Disagree.
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I think the more distrust a person has of someone, the more jealous a person becomes. Jealousy is usually bad, but, sometimes it's good because sometimes it's a sign saying This Isn't The Right Person For You.
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killdrphil said it right at the end... a relationship that conjures up emotions of intense jealousy and envy may not be the right relationship. jealousy and envy are very primal emotions once used to protect and ensure procreation. they go hand in hand with possession of females in many species. i don't know if there's a way to erase them from our human makeup, but one should definitely be aware of how irrational they can make a person if allowed to get out of hand.
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They aren't outdated, they are human emotions. Those emotions will be until the end of time. Do they hurt people? Only those who feel them and acccept them as negative. Have you ever envied or felt jealous of someone who had something you wanted and it caused you to work harder to get it and then achieve it?
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I disagree. I won't argue that they do those things, but they don't only serve that purpose. Jealousy and envy can be huge motivators, and like anything else, we can use our motivation for the better or for worse, it's up to us.
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I think envy is wrong any way you slice it. Jealousy in very small amounts can be productive. I am not talking about all consuming jealousy where you try to control someone, it would be the kind where you are protective over what is your own.
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Jealousy preserves self identity in some women. Such an attitude gives them the kind of contentment that no other emotion can give. Our minds are as different as our finger prints - no two think alike. We can not avoid jealousy and envy in the minds of some persons.
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I definetly agrre!
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J&E are bad feeligs.You cant be a 'little' jealous since the J word expresses a level of hostile feelings towards a person,placeor thing. If its a 'little' J-E then your not feeling jealous or envy. You cant be a 'little' bit dead.
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I totally agree
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I agree. I am either happy for someone or indifferent.
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I would want agree that both jealousy and envy are useless emotions which are damaging to relationship. However they are not outdated because these negative emotions survived the generations and are still very contemporary. Most of us if not all of us are guilty and could identify ourselves with them.
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If I don't get hurt every once in awhile, how am I ever supposed to learn how not to be?
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disagree. jealousy sometimes motivates me to be better than i am, so i can get rid of the jealousy.
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depends on how you react to the emotion productive or hateful. +5
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