Desire is the favorable disposition in one direction; the inner tendency to acquire something or to achieve something. I desire, I turn my heart, my inner mood towards a direction, an object; the object of my desire and my craving.
There is no desire without an object to be desired. And if my desire is about a natural subject, a handsome man, a luxury car, an expensive electronic game, etc., then the subject is delineated and concerns only me and the way I get it. But there are desires far beyond these simple human issues of everyday life, and these are obviously much stronger and harder to detect ourselves and even more so by an external judge.
Neither the object of desire nor the method I will obtain it with can be distinguished, when the object is not a natural or artificial object, but an inner desire to cause a disaster to a third person or to groups of people. And this is a crucial part of our modern, complex society.