• Piranha Phish@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I’ve been trying to reframe things like this in my mind.

    Instead of contemplating if the world would be better if they were gone, I tell myself that my wish would be for them to just be a good person.

    I’m not trying to be righteous. But I think, framed like that, a good person would choose the latter. And if it really came down the power to disappear somebody, I think most people would err on the side of good.

    But retribution and vengeance are strong in our lizard brains.

    • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Ya if you kill muskrat then someone else fills his place. Instead, if we’re talking magic, let him become a truly generous and benevolent person and spend his wealth recreating our economy to solve world hunger or some such thing