Killing Vanity Defined

Killing

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This article is about the act of ending a living being's life. For other meanings, see Kill (disambiguation) or Killing (disambiguation)

To kill, killing or to have killed means to cause the death of a living organism.

The act of killing an animal, plant, or other life form can be said to have occurred when an outside force, usually another life form, has done something to cause it to die.

Vanity

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In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. In many religions vanity is considered a form of self-idolatry, in which one rejects God for the sake of one's own image, and thereby becomes divorced from the graces of God. The stories of Lucifer and Narcissus (who gave us the term narcissism), and others, attend to a pernicious aspect of vanity.

Philosophically-speaking, vanity may refer to a broader sense of egoism and pride. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that "vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality." One of Mason Cooley's aphorisms is "Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful."

In early Christian teachings vanity is considered an example of pride, one of the seven deadly sins.

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Often we find an inscription on a scroll that reads Omnia Vanitas ("All is Vanity"), a quote from the Latin translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Although that phrase originally referred not to arrogance or pride but to the ultimate fruitlessness of man's efforts in this world, the phrase remains a powerful epitaph for artistic rendition.