FS, your example illustrates Greed & Envy -- two of the Seven Deadly Sins -- not Fear (which is not considered a sin at all).
Some individuals will always think they should be getting more because others have more, etc. This is a simple fear-based example: 1) they have something; 2) I don't have that something; 3) therefor I want that thing because they have it and I don't.
For the record, the other Deadly Sins are Pride, Lust, Gluttony, Anger, and Sloth. How about attacking them for a change? <g>
You also write:
..but the inspired fighter that reacts to but transcends his fear is doing so from some core value.
Of course! That was my whole point! The core value very often is love. 'Twas you, not I, who saw Fear and Love as incompatible, indeed antithetical.
To think it has come to this -- that, in the interests of logic, I should have to defend fear. Fear is only a natural instinct. And not everything that is Natural is Nice, btw.
As for "we have nothing to fear but fear itself," remember, FDR was a politician. Are you?
jbe
Click on the sin for a more in-depth review.
Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes
with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been
called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known
as Vanity.
Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that
which one requires.
Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.
Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts
instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath.
Covetousness is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring
the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Greed.
Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work. |
