Traffic rage. If my car had machine guns, there’d be murder done.
There are a few major political figures that I would be glad to see gone - if not dead then out of the picture, so to speak. They wield a level of influence that I find to be bad for our society as a whole.
On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve run into a few POS individuals whom I am quite certain are a net negative in this world. I would probably see their deaths as the best possible outcome overall. If they were simply made insignificant by an accident of health issues they would still burden someone unduly - so death it is!
Oh, and I keep a list of names in my wallet - just in case one day I snap…
Yep, that’s how I’m counting it.
As long as the bastard doesn’t take anyone else out when he so deservedly goes down.
This sounds about right to me.
It’s odd. It’s an impulsive reaction that you don’t really mean if you think even slightly about it. You don’t want someone dead, you just want them either punished, to know how hurt you are, or for them to not exist because they make the world a worse place.
I have someone who if they were to somehow end up being declared legally dead, it would greatly simplify my current life situation, but I don’t actually wish any particular harm on them.
So I guess that’s “other” for me.
I picked Other - I don’t necessarily wish certain people were dead - I just wish they were out of my life. Alien abduction works.
Mostly, I just wish certain individuals would experience an enlightenment and realize what wastes they are, then modify themselves accordingly. They we all win. Yeah, I know, I want life to be an After School Special where we all live happily ever after. What can I say…
I’m quite surprised how many people are responding to this as if it was about wishing death on someone they know or have personally encountered. I took it to mean “anyone in the world who I’ve ever even heard of”, and there are plenty of them.
Lots of liars on that poll above…
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.
I think if you want to halt violence in the world, start by halting it in your mind.
This is ridiculous.
This is nonsensical. Are you reflecting a Catholic upbringing where the thought is as much a sin as the deed?
I despised Nixon. I was delighted to hear he dropped dead, though I was rather pissed he got a big deal state funeral. Nevertheless, I never would have killed him, or even punched him, for Og’s sake.
And since when does wishing someone were dead equate to wanting them violently killed? Heart attacks, cancer, they’re all good!
Disagree all you want, but those are the principles I live by, so you know where I stand.
Oh, and in answer to your one question, I was coming at it from a basically Buddhist perspective, not Catholic.
You stand in a pile of bullshit. Got it.
Let me ask you a question. If by your mental force alone (you can’t, but just suppose) you were able to deliberately cause someone to die from a heart attack, would that be murder? Would it be a form of violence?
Yes, it would be murder. If my idle thought might kill someone, I might kill myelf to prevent it. If it took some strange ninja focus and mental gymnastics, I wouldn’t do it (well, maybe once, because I wouldn’t even know I could do it until it happened, and then I’d be complettely shocked), nor would I sit around worrying about idly wishing people would drop dead.
I don’t think anyone here, except you, is talking about sending out mental death waves in an attempt to kill anyone. They just think they, and maybe the rest of us too, would be better off with some people dead.
Thoughts alone can’t hurt another person, but they initiate the process by which harmful speech and actions eventually occur. All acts begin as thoughts before being translated to action. So it’s important to me to live my life so as to contribute to less violence in the world. That begins by not holding violence in my mind. I think it’s best to eradicate it by the root. I don’t wish evil on anyone. I wish for everyone to be liberated from it.
Yes, and if I were able to click my heels twice and be back in Kansas, that would be teleportation. But clicking my heels and wishing I were home isn’t teleporting, Toto.
No, they don’t. It’s possible that they might, but that’s only for a crazy, murderous people, and even then, only sometimes. For everyone else, they’re just thoughts that go nowhere. For example, right now I am thinking about having sex with that guy in my building who looks like Common. Is that going to lead to sex with him? Oh god, please say yes.
But seriously folks, I get (I think) what you’re saying. That every violent act began with a violent thought, which sure, is fair enough. But the words you actually said are violent thoughts will eventually lead to acts of violence, which is kind of a whole lot of bullshit.
This is the really dumb part of your comment.
Yes, thoughts (of violence or anything else) are separate from actions. Every single person on earth who is not insane can separate the two. It is as simple as that.