[quote name='CoffeeEdge']Actually, no, I avoid the OTTs, by and large. Now, moving on.
I've never wanted as such because, quite frankly, no one has made anywhere near a great enough trespass against me to warrent such grave feelings from me (worth noting is my belief that feelings of hatred hurt the hater more than the hatee). Sure, there are hypothetical situations, but they are NOT what we are talking about.[/QUOTE]
So you are fortunate in that no one has spurned one in an unfashionable term such as child abuse, rape, murder, unjustified death, etc. The question at hand is wishing someone death, not whether you were caring out that wish or have it cared out. It's just a thought. A billion random thoughts pass through my head, regardless of their morality. Morality is only an issue when thoughts of immorality are made incarnate. Yes, I have wished someone dead - not once have I cared it out. There are consequences to actions so it is logic, not emotion that guides me. Sure, I have hatred but I don't let it overwhelm me. It is through rational understanding of the world around me that I am able to moral. Strange? Not really. Rationally, it is given in the society we currently live in that were you to kill someone, you would pay the consequences - jail, vengence by a relative of the wronged party, or simple karmic balancing.
[quote name='CoffeeEdge'] My original comment was perhaps a criticism of a feeling I see held by many youth: the idea that they wish people dead over petty little things...parents trying to raise them, girl/boyfriends that leave them, things like that. I think that such feelings, over such things, are crazy. That's what I meant to say.[/QUOTE]
Then why didn't you say that exactly? The way you said it made it sound like you were speaking of personal experience - that you spoke for all of us.
[quote name='CoffeeEdge'] Hypothetics are pointless. They are bridges not crossed, and that by many, will never be crossed. A situation like the one you outlined will befall so few people, that I see it pointless to consider. Though I'll do this.[/QUOTE]
How are hypothetics pointless? Without hypothetics we would not have philosophy, invention, and ingenuity. Do you think Edison would have invented the lightbulb without conceptualization of the idea of a lightbulb? Or Ford thinking of a better way to get around instead of using a horse cart? Or yes, if the Devil himself, Bill Gates didn't buy back his technology so he could develop it the way he wanted? Regardless of the morbidity of the question, hypothetics, I must disagree, are NOT pointless.
[quote name='CoffeeEdge'] Let's say that that situation you described befell me. Now, if I have the power to simply wish someone dead, I suppose that I have the power to wish for other things, too. In that case, I would wish for peace for this "friend" of mine, and for the hatred that lead him to his acts to be lifted from him. I would like to leave him a better person, for those involved to be where they want to be (who does the girl/children
want to live with, if anyone? I would let here decide), and to get on with things. And while I'm at it, I'd like to make the world a perfect place (no war, hunger, hate, violence, pollution, etc).
And if I don't have such wish powers...then I guess I will have to rely on the law.
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The question only asked if you ever wished someone dead. It did not ask 'if you had wishing powers what would you do with them?' Case in point, the ability to wish someone dead does not preclude the idea that you can wish for anything else. And if you were to rely on the law all the time, you would most definitely start wishing someone dead. It was THE LAW at one point during WWII that US citizens who were ethnically Japanese were held in internment camps. For what? For BEING Japanese. Even when the government had no reason to lock them. They were becoming almost as bad as the Nazis! A formal apology hasn't even been given to those ppl until earlier this year! It was THE LAW at one point in which it was legal for another man to own another man as a pet to do hard manual labor. Even after it was abolished, ppl still told these ppl that you were 'separate but equal'. That's bullshit talk into suggesting that they were free when in fact they were lingering resentment from both sides. If you even want to try the Dalai Lama route, let's see. It was THE LAW that said that he was a dissenter trying to cause mayhem and destruction when he preached non-violent protest at the Chinese government. Irrespective of his divinity, he just voiced his opinion and they threw him out of the country! There's justice and there's the law. They're not always the same thing. Fact of the matter is, there won't be such a thing as total peace because there is always someone who will be dissatisfied with how things are done. Fortunately, it is also in the human capacity for compassion that there won't also be such a thing as total war. Even the atrocities of the World Wars didn't touch the whole world. Most of it but not all.
[quote name='CoffeeEdge'] And really, I don't intend to enterain further hypothetics, so go bother someone else about what would drive them to wanting others dead.[/QUOTE]
Except you respond several times after this particular post suggests otherwise so obviously you're still bothered.
[quote name='CoffeeEdge'] Also, unlike some people seem to think, there are people who, no matter what, would never wish harm or death upon another:
I hope I don't have to explain what that is.[/QUOTE]
Even using a picture of a Buddhist monk doesn't negate thought. How naive of you to think that just because they are trying to break the cycle of rebirth and achieve nirvana doesn't mean that a stray thought (of hatred or love) can't possibly enter their mind. Dharma is still something to be observed and practiced but it doesn't mean they can stop their own thoughts.
to hell
I have no idea why, but after reading your entire post it has made me laugh. 
