Envy is the only sin I can think of that is really no fun at all. It begins in negative feelings of inferiority, progresses into nasty feelings of resentment, and then stagnates in a stewing, frothy mess of petty or belligerent offspring sins. Even when envy gets what it wants—the destruction or removal of another person’s borrowed glory—it is left with empty energy that must be redirected to a new object of hatred.
