Wishing bad things upon others is ethically and morally wrong. As a true Christian you love everyone, even—especially!—your enemy. If you studied Nietzsche you understand how, punching up, loving your enemies is a more powerful political strategy than hating them.

Nietzsche: “To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget”

It takes ethical reflection to wish your enemies to recuperate. It takes moral superiority to wish them well when they brought their sickness upon themselves. Meanwhile, Trump continues to smear Biden and he willfully infects his own Secret Service agents. That’s *not* smart.

If you think that those who see the Donald as a threat to humanity and then wish him to recuperate send mixed signals, you forget something: Wishing him to get well signals serious virtue (yes, I know, but it does), it communicates lack of fear and a firm trust in the law.

A just trial is superior to destiny striking down a tyrant or a tyrant in the making. What do you choose: A tyrant trialed and emprisoned or dying by his own error? Revenge may feel good at the moment, but justice is morally, ethically and legally preferable.

Nietzsche noted that loving your enemy is a strategy chosen from a lower position of power (“slave morals”). The passive resistance of Christians in the Roman Empire signaled a conviction, courage, and determination that would shake up any power exercised through force and fear.

There is something metaphysically wrong about expressing your wish for someone to die in spoken words, no matter who. It’s as if you hit the walls of language—if you said or heard someone saying “I wish he’d die!” you may also have felt like that you or person was hitting a wall.

Expressing your wish for someone to die is as if you used language against its core purposes: Humanity. Language is not something we possess, we share it. Wishing death releases a spell that works against the idea of language, that poisons its white magic.

And while not everyone publicly wishing the Donald to get healthy would mean it or chose the same words in private—it is the right thing to say. We don’t need to ethically or politically think this through. We instantly feel that it’s wrong to express the wish for someone to die.

It’s wrong to express your wish for someone to die, and it’s ethically wrong to celebrate someone coming to harm by force or chance. And that’s not because somehow magically “this makes you just like him.” These resistance members were not like Hitler. https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1312749777960853505

The chance that another 4 years of Trump inflicts serious harm upon humanity, let alone by his dangerous neglect of of the global climate development, is real. That people speak and act out of fear is understandable. But it’s not desirable. Reason and justice needs to win here.

I was talking about this the other day with some friends and one of our conclusion was that it’s a shame that Jesus had turned into a religious figure and not a practical philosopher. In cases like these, his philosophy of love can be helpful to explain some strange things.

Wishing that something bad happens to someone is engaging in black magic… it expresses a level of superstition. Cause… it doesn’t matter what you wish. Wishing that something good happens to a bad person is more of an act of self hygiene, freeing your mind from hate and fear.