Why is it okay to wish death on some, but not others? Ex: Wishing Osama bin Laden death...no problem, wishing Rush Limbaugh, Obama, or The Pope death...outrage.
I don’t think it’s okay to wish death on anyone.
Yep; I was about to say that
And it's perfectly fine for you to feel that way. Everyone is different.
@Rideauxb Seem pretty obvious. I wouldn’t like someone to wish death on me, so I do not wish death on others.
then you needn't do it ...no problem
I don't wish for anyone's death, in the case of bin Laden and Limbaugh, I didn't/woudn't cry at their funerals.
In my opinion death is the easy way out for the condmend, life in prison, especially if confined with no contact other than your guards seems a harsher punishment, segregation but not solitary confinement.
We need to be more honest.
It seems quite likely that a body found on our beach 3 weeks back was a guy I worked with briefly. The way he was going it may not be a bad thing, and really wasn't surprising. Sometimes my only sense of justice in this life has been the fact that I am still alive and some others are not.
In summary, I often wish other people would just die or at least disappear from my world.
Wishing death on someone, hmmmm, okay. But wishing LIFE on someone, now THAT’S the stuff nightmares are made of, lol!
There are certainly people who should not be walking around, but I'm not sitting here wishing death on them. I certainly wouldn't cry over the loss of a large list of people. I just think it sucks where we live in a world where Tom Petty, Prince, George Michael, etc are gone, but Justin Bieber is still walking around.
I try to just think there’s people I would be sad if they were dead and others I wouldn’t. Sometimes I feel like the world might be better off if a certain person were dead (Putin?) but there’s always someone else. And as the other poster said, wishing someone dead is pointless as far as their ending up dead. But I think such thoughts can be kind of a poison to a person’s mind and outlook.
Do you feel you know enough about Purim to pass summary judgement over his human existence?
Even from a political point of view, his death might cause political and cultural instability in a world power.
Exactly. You never know how things will be affected by other things. Makes me glad I don’t decide who lives or dies.