Tbh my eyes kind of glaze over when most people say they want [insert large group of anonymous people] to be hurt. Because it's talk. More importantly, I'd wager it's talk that everyone's done.
Two things. The first being, "Becareful what you wish for." Second, the quote I posted from the book "Les Miserables". I think you'll understand what I mean there, but here's hoping you wouldn't judge me out of that understanding either.
Call me crazy, but when an annoying customer of hours crossed the limit, my boss requested me to not offer any future services to him. He went beyond "annoying" in such a way that I expressed my anger with my friend that I wanted bad things to happen to the ignorant prick. The next day, I heard the news that he met with an accident and passed away. Call it coincidence or superstition, but since then I lost my ability to desire misfortune for anyone -- even if it was just a coincidence, it brought the corruption of my temperament to light, and I worked hard to correct it from that very day. Now all I desire
good things to happen to people, and even if it doesn't happen I make sure it does with my own actions.
But on that regard, I still agree with you. In the words of Blake, "I was angry at me friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry at my foe; I told him not, my wrath did grow." Sometimes it's simply a good thing to vent, and Z is welcome to do so here.
Are you guys really ok with what's being said here? Because I can't tolerate that sort of hate, and I don't want to have any part in a community where the general reaction to it is apathy or acceptance.
I think I'll second Saj's stand on this. Firstly, let me ask you one thing: How did you expect Z to react to Beck's response? Do you think he'd simply come out clean, saying, "Oh, I don't
really go about bashing people's faces, I'm just venting!" He posted his frustration under the assumption that it was all understood. And besides, just because the majority aren't violent doesn't mean they don't secretly wish something that extreme in wrath. And if he did wish it, even if he has no intention of soiling his hands with blood, why would he go back on his words?
One of the reasons Z may not have replied to Beck, I think, is because Beck had a point there. But in that case, even Beck admits that wilful ignorance is simply wrong, and eventually this becomes central to the point of Z's frustration with ignorance.
The reason I've never said anything to him (besides my lack of time) yet is because, while I admit I used to get quite involved into vehement arguments with Z (and that I still don't agree with some of his beliefs), I'm starting to understand the guy better. And I think even you'd agree that the fellow isn't as impulsive as he comes off on the net, but then again the Compendium is one of the few places he can safely vent. It's not that we agree with Z's, but the fact that we're aware of the situations that cause such sentiments in him. And I think even you'd agree that he's far more calculative to stay out of trouble for the sake of pursuing greater justice (otherwise, in his own words, he wouldn't be "prostituting himself for the wealthy's selfish concerns" because seriously, he hates those trolls -- and I do too).
No, mate, he's simply waiting for that one golden opportunity to make a miracle.
