# How often do you wish someone were dead?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wish-someone-were-dead/635355>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 21, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wish-someone-were-dead/635355 "2012-09-21T03:59:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wish-someone-were-dead/635355/61 "2012-10-01T22:05:51Z")

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> About once a day. Usually me.

likewise, I usually wish myself dead. I’ve lived long enough.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-wish-someone-were-dead/635355/62 "2012-10-01T22:26:35Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> Violence in the mind is not separate from violence in action. It’s violence however you slice it. If you’re going to hold violent thoughts, face it that that shit spills out into violent speech and violent behavior too. Similar to the principle of don’t pull a gun on anyone unless you’re prepared to really shoot them.
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> I think if you want to halt violence in the world, start by halting it in your mind.

I like you, but I think you’re wrong. It is because I’ve entertained violent thoughts in great detail, playing out whole scenarios for various individuals, that I’ve established my general distate of violence. I’ve decided that it is, in most cases, pointless (every case if you consider things as a Buddhist who is only here in this life as one step of many others on a much larger journey), and self-perpetuating. Had I not given true violence and hate some thought and reflection, I’d likely still freely indulge my natural impulses.

We don’t know each other’s minds, only each other’s actions. Unless you subscribe to the concept of us all sharing a common mind, being a small part of a whole. But even then, thoughts happen–it’s what you do with them that is important.

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