Fencing Bear at Prayer

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"The envious want to be superior, for their self-esteem depends on outranking others in the relevant field of comparison.  Their own identity hangs on excelling others, but only those others who threaten that identity, that is, those close enough to be compared as rivals.  If we reflect on whom we envy, we are likely to discover how we define our identity and where we see that identity as most vulnerable.  Envy generally strikes in areas where another's superiority seems to threaten or lessen our own excellence and where that comparison leaves us feeling inferior in a way close to our identity." --Rebecca Konynyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2009), p. 49. So, okay, I made a list: " Whom do I envy?  That is, whom do I most want to see destroyed, like Salieri wanted Mozart destroyed? "  I won't share that list with you (no, no, no, no, no, no, no).  (It had ten names on it...