"Charles" wrote in message
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Turn this around. Do you personally suffer if you're watching a nature
show
on TV which shows lions eating gazelle, or owls & hawks eating rodents?

I don't know why we have to keep turning things around. I take no
pleasure in the imminent death or suffering of another human being (or
animal).

That statement is unambiguous.

You believe it is appropriate to take pleasure in the suffering or death
of a human or animal if they have done something which has offended you.
You have expressed your position of withholding help from an individual
in a life threatening situation because that person previously offended
you. Obviously, you derive some self satisfaction, some vengeance by
seeing that person suffer and possibly die.

I take no pleasure in seeing animals killed & eaten. It just is the way it
is. And, I don't go gunning for people who've offended me. But, at some
point, people *do* get swept into the evolutionary continuum, which
basically says that if you make mistakes, **** happens to you and you don't
get to pass along your genetic material. If you **** off 100 boaters in a
marina constantly for a long period of time, those boaters may do nothing
when you're not there and your boat begins sinking. If you create a
situation with one highly probable outcome, and that turns out to be the
outcome, you have no right to wonder why you got the thing you designed.



I lived next door to a neighbor-from-hell for 9 1/2 years. Never ever
did I wish the man dead or withhold help from him.

I see where your anger comes from. You were a patsy for 9-1/2 years and you
feel bitter about it. I'm not suggesting that you should've killed your
neighbor. But, there are ways to begin and end a legal process so fast that
the neighbor doesn't have time to even think about it. If you didn't have
the balls for that, it's YOUR problem.