Comment on Damn straight!
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 hours agoI think jealousy gets a bad rap. It tells you what you want, and what you personally or society could work toward.
Comment on Damn straight!
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 hours agoI think jealousy gets a bad rap. It tells you what you want, and what you personally or society could work toward.
iglou@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Jealousy and envy are not the same thing, although the nuance is subtle. What you’re talking about is closer to envy. You can be envious of something or someone without the hostility that turns it into jealousy.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I disagree. I believe that you choose for it to be envy or jealousy by your definition.
podian@piefed.social 3 hours ago
What my friend was conveying is that envy is the want for something–usually that another has–and jealousy is the fear of losing something that one already has.
The interchangeable usage based on a vague understanding is just that (often normatively though they’re probably unaware of it).
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
And what I’m saying is, that’s a choice.