superrific
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I'm not sure that's it exactly. I think there's a conventional wisdom that it's somehow wrong to wish death for a person, and I don't get that at all. Especially if we are talking about a globally important person who affects your life but only abstractly. Does anyone really think it would be wrong to say, "I wish Putin would just die?"Seems like pointless virtue signaling to me,
And there's an additional wrinkle, which is that many policies have the causation of death as an explicit goal. I'm not even talking about things like elevated pollution levels. It's more like, if you are hoping that the US bombs Iran, then you are hoping for someone to die. That you might not know precisely who doesn't really affect the moral calculus at all.