Malicious Intentions: An Case For Numerous Competitive Tendencies?

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Malice: Allusive Description

There's a phenomenon that there's always a purpose for every action... every human action, emotion, reaction, feedback or outburst. However, this isn't always. Sometimes actions are backed for no purpose or for even darker and more malicious purpose than we might claim to admit.

Take for example, look at the concept of Coup d'état. It means violently overthrowing a government in other to replace it. Now, why do I consider the effect to be dark? Humans have come to believe that their fellow humans can become an obstacle to their progress, or a reason why they might not particularly get to a height in life.

Cain, in the bible, for example, believed that his brother Abel was an obstacle to why his prayers were unanswered. Categorically this wasn't true, his prayers were not answered because he couldn't meet up to expectations with what he offered but because his brother offered better, he felt he could have met the expectations if his brother didn't choose to be better.


The Illogical Intents

His choice to kill his brother was born out of
insubstantial reasons, but this didn't change the fact that it was merely spiteful and illogical. Sometimes we see people as our direct competition, and it causes us to create a deceitful aura or a negative energy towards them. This might eventually lead to us to create a harmful intent towards them.

Maliciousness is purely illogical, this is to say that it deals more with the emotion rather than one's sense of reasoning. In the world, people can be hated when they chose to be unique, better or different. Spiteful feelings emanate, especially when we feel wrongly motivated to detest people without a plausible cause. Hurting others sometimes comes from a feeling of jealousy and envy, and when studied carefully it can be totally baseless.


Shooting Oneself In The Foot

Sometimes we envisage a "blockade", it makes us feel that the progress of others automatically nullifies our struggles, It brings intimidation. We begin to measure the input we put in, we make comparisons, we ask questions as to why we fail when others do the same specific things we do and succeed.

We see these people as to why we failed rather than looking at other reasons why we might have failed. When we begin to see no substantial reasons for having some feelings or cynical intentions towards someone, it can lead to irrational actions that eventually tinkers with our humanity.

This is sometimes evident in business as well. Take for example hive. Some newbies find frustration when they don't earn so much, however they blame the fact that they don't earn much on hive on the people who are earning well.


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Conforming To Self-Concocted Intimidation

They create a sort of malice with these people, they feel that the reward of these people should be channeled to them, they see themselves doing their best without having nothing to show for it, it makes it difficult for them to learn. So they see people as obstacles, ironically negating the fact that the blockchain can virtually contain two times the world's population and have them all consistently do well at the same time depending on their different inputs.

Maliciousness makes people unknown antagonists, they nurse diverse grudges that might sometimes be baseless. Malice hinders people from self discovery, they're obsessed with the "happenings" going on with others and this makes them blame these "other people" for their failures rather than taking responsibility or being an agent or an instrument of change.

One truth about malice is that it blinds people from being objective. When a person stops being objective, they lose vision of the bigger picture, making them even blind to realities that are in front of them.


On A Second Thought

Individually defining maliciousness, I see it as an intent to hurt people due to spiteful feelings that can be totally insubstantial. Ways through which people can show malice is through competition, or cultivating the sense of competitiveness. It can hold depth. Sometimes we create a distasteful barrier, build walls, difference and hold opinions that we cannot totally hold admissible openly.

Everyone is however prone to malicious tendencies, because we can sometimes allow our innate desires to mingle with our emotional externalities. This is why we should try to recognize malicious characteristics in our lives and deal with them rather appropriately.




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Competition is fine, it could be healthy too but when competition crosses the fine line and gets clothed with evil intent then malice comes to the fore.
As in the case of Cain and able.. Cain could have taken it as a challenge and offered his best to God, but no he decided to make do with his competitor ( who is not even one in reality)
Oh I almost missed this one.. So this is the pob wotw. I better write mine earlier this time.

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So this is the pob wotw. I better write mine earlier this time.

Yeah, this is the WOTW, better to put yours out on time, who knows, you might enjoy writing it.

As for me, I feel that competition can create malicious intents, which in turn can turn rather diabolical if you ask me, however healthy competition can be good, where people are challenged to be better.


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Hmm.. I always enjoy writing.. but I hate it when its rushed and there is no time for editing and sharpening my thoughts.
I am okay with competitions, you win some you lose some.
My happiness comes from putting out my best.

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I like the way you gave us a variety of perspectives on malice @josediccus. The key take-away from your article for me though was the tie-up between malice and emotion. Humans are emotional beings but one of our aims in life should be to be able to manage our emotions so that we do not become slaves unto them; that we do not become adversely reactive when they well up inside of us. We should indeed feel deep joy from happy experiences, deep sadness from a tragic loss, and the full range of emotions that cover the spectrum that as human beings we are privileged to experience, but we should learn to become consciously aware of how these emotions are triggered, how that makes us feel and how we respond as a consequence. Our emotional intelligence needs to evolve constantly so that when we experience negative emotions, we deal with them appropriately and don't turn to a negative reaction in response, such as malice. Malice is an example of when we take passive internal feelings and emotions of anger, disappointment, greed, or anything else of a negative nature and act upon it to the intentional detriment of the person who is the perceived source of grievance.

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