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6 Enemies of human development

1.Lust

  • Lust is a psychological force producing intense desire for an object, or circumstance fulfilling the emotion while already having a significant other or amount of the desired object. Lust can take any form such as the lust for sexuality , love, money, or power. It can take such mundane forms as the lust for food as distinct from the need for food.

  • Religions tend to draw a distinction between passion and lust by further categorizing lust as an immoral desire and passion as morally accepted.

  • Lust is defined as immoral because its object or action of affection is improperly ordered according to natural law and/or the appetite for the particular object (e.g. sexual desire) is governing the person's intellect and will rather than the intellect and will governing the appetite for that object.

  • In Hinduism, in the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna, an Avatar of Vishnu, declared in chapter 16, verse 21 that lust is one of the gates to Naraka or hell.

  • In Sikhism, lust is counted among the five cardinal sins or sinful propensities, the others being wrath, ego, greed and attachment. Uncontrollable expression of sexual lust, as in rape or sexual addiction, is an evil.

2. Anger

  • Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.

  • A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adrenaline and nor adrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion which triggers part of the fight or flight response Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force.

  • Anger can have many physical and mental consequences. The external expression of anger can be found in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses, and at times public acts of aggression. Facial expressions can range from inward angling of the eyebrows to a full frown. 

3.Haughtiness

  • having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior

  • the appearance or quality of being arrogantly superior and disdainful.

  • Someone who is haughty is arrogant and full of pride. When you're haughty, you have big attitude and act like you're better than other people.

  • A haughty person acts superior and looks down on others. Haughty people are disdainful, overbearing, prideful, swaggering, and obnoxious. Acting amazed that others haven't heard of a hot new band is haughty. Speaking in a cocky or superior way is haughty. The word even sounds a little like its meaning: it's hard to say haughty without sounding like you have an attitude. If you're acting like others are beneath you, you're being haughty.

4. Greed 

  • Greed (or avarice) is an uncontrolled longing for increase in the acquisition or use: of material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions); or social value, such as status, or power. Greed has been identified as undesirable throughout known human history because it creates behavior-conflict between personal and social goals.

  • The initial motivation for (or purpose of) greed and actions associated with it may be the promotion of personal or family survival. It may at the same time be an intent to deny or obstruct competitors from potential means (for basic survival and comfort) or future opportunities; therefore being insidious or tyrannical and having a negative connotation.

  • But regardless of purpose, greed intends to create an inequity of access or distribution to community wealth.

  • As a secular psychological concept, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of in ordinance is related to the inability to control the reformulation of "wants" once desired "needs" are eliminated

  • One individual consequence of greedy activity may be an inability to sustain any of the costs or burdens associated with that which has been or is being accumulated, leading to a backfire or destruction, whether of self or more generally. Other outcomes may include a degradation of social position, or exclusion from community protections. So, the level of "in ordinance" of greed pertains to the amount of vanity, malice or burden associated with it.

5.Infatuation

  • Infatuation or being smitten is the state of being carried away by an unreasoned passion, usually towards another person for whom one has developed strong romantic or platonic feelings.

  • a feeling of foolish or obsessively strong love for, admiration for, or interest in someone or something : strong and unreasoning attachment

  • Being infatuated with someone requires no thinking. You do not know anything about the person that you are attracted to. This is a very quick attraction that feels like it hits you over the head. As soon as you see this person, you are already fantasizing about your future together without knowing anything about them. You already believe that things are going to work out for the both of you based on appearances only. Infatuation is automatically filling in the blanks for that person and hoping that things will work out the way you want.

  • There is a very big difference between infatuation and being in love. Infatuation is when you first see someone that you are attracted to and immediately feel there is a connection based on that whereas love is knowing the good and bad of someone and still loving them all the same. By knowing the difference between being infatuated with someone and loving them, you will know if you are with the right person. 

6.Excessive Happiness

  • Excessive happiness in any individual also makes people less attuned to threats in the environment — such as a failing to take notice of a man lurking in the dark shadows of a parking lot or signs that your company might be considering eliminating your job. But extreme degrees of happiness can also lead to binge eating, drinking, drug use and risky sexual promiscuity among people more broadly.

  • happiness is not a one-size-fits-all. In fact, happiness has many flavors — such as being in a high state of arousal or joy, having feelings of love, compassion and being connected to others, and also feeling pride about oneself. But some of these specific states of happiness can lead to unhealthy outcomes. For instance, feeling good about your accomplishments is only a short distance from pride, which in certain forms can lead to less connection with others, and more aggressive or antisocial behavior.
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