Emotionally indiscriminate people often perceive feelings of envy as a sense of injustice. For them, it seems “fair” to commit wrongful acts simply because someone else got away with it at some point.
For example, one might feel justified in stealing because “If others can do it, why can’t I?” One might sing loudly at night, set off fireworks, or practice with a power drill. One might even urinate in an elevator. Or one might decide to inflict harm or revenge on someone else, often someone very close, as if by doing something bad to them, they could somehow do something good for themselves.
You can also break traffic rules, drive on the shoulder, honk for no reason, fail to yield to pedestrians, “teach” or cut off other drivers just because “others do it.”
Such emotional indiscrimination can eventually become part of the national culture, that very uniqueness that distinguishes one people from another. This approach will ensure that everyone equally shares the poorly maintained stairwells, damaged cars, frayed nerves, and ugly fences made of corrugated metal, all lined up along unpaved dirt roads. And we will see how the monkey, capable of thoughtless imitation, has triumphed over man. How people, instead of doing something together, will eagerly destroy things together, prohibit everything to each other, report on one another, steal from one another, and lie to each other even when the lies are obvious. If others can do it, then so can I. Do as everyone else does!
And then this idea can be elevated to a state level, justifying the killing of other people, the seizure of territories, and shameless, unscrupulous lies on the simple basis that someone else has done it before, rather than because it is useful, profitable, or reasonable.