Friends:

Craving causes conflict, competition,  & catastrophic calamity!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Truly, caused by craving for sense pleasure, conditioned by craving
for simple sense pleasure, propelled by craving for sense pleasure,
wholly induced by craving for sense pleasure, kings fight with kings,
princes with princes, priests with priests, citizens with citizens and
the mother quarrels with the son, the son with the mother, the father
with the son, the son with the father; brother quarrels with brother,
brother with sister, sister with brother, & friend brawl with friend!
Thus, pushed into conflict, quarrelling, & fighting, they readily attack
each other with fists and weapons, thereby suffering pain & death!
Furthermore, caused by craving for plain sense pleasure, conditioned
by craving for simple sense pleasure, propelled by craving for sense
pleasure, wholly induced by craving for sense pleasure, people break
into houses, rob, plunder, steal from friends, commit highway robbery,
seduce the wives of others. Then the rulers have such people caught
and inflict on them various forms of punishment. Thereby they meet
death or deadly pain. Such is the misery of craving for sense pleasure,
accumulation of pain & suffering in this present life, caused, initiated,
prepared & entirely dependent upon this evil urge for sense pleasure!
Finally: Beings start to take up evil mental, verbal & bodily behaviour;
as a consequence of that, at breakup of the body, right after death,
they are whirled into the downfall, and re-arise in a state of misery,
in an unhappy destination, in the abyss of the many inferno hells...
Such also is the misery of craving for sense pleasure: Accumulation
of suffering in the future life, entirely due to craving for pleasure,
created by craving for pleasure, caused by craving for pleasure,
utterly dependent on this malign sense pleasure craving. MN 13...
                                                                                                         
More on this painful Craving:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Feeling_Causes_and_Effects.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Proximate_Causes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm

Craving is Catastrophic now & later!