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That I might wish that an evil person had been eliminated?
That the world would be a wholly truly better place without some of the bad actors operating amongst us?
This is an 'aspiration' projected, "if you will", into the past.
And thus incapable of realization...it cannot rise to action or result.
However....
To wish that that evil creature should be blown to bits
as it slept in some far-away place is another thing entirely.
It would be then ongoingly that I wish foul, egregious and awful things to happen to another living creature.
Any other.
THAT is itself evil, reflects on and demeans me & us.
And so not to be countenanced...at all...ever
for that reason alone, if not many others.
But to recognize that the world might well have been a better place....I stand by that.
[Disclaimer: never having commented on any of this until now]
