No one with a genuinely spiritual outlook laughs at anyone else's torment, M, nor wishes eternal torment on anyone. We're all in this together, and we should wish the best for one another...if we want to become truly human, and that's what spiritual work is actually about...it's about becoming truly human, which is to become a loving and forgiving person. It's about fulfilling our real human potential and destiny which is brotherhood/sisterhood, rather than engaging in bloody competition and destruction of one another to the detriment of all of us.

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Steve,

If you want to be respected, then respect other people as you would wish they respected you, and that includes not belittling them in small, petty ways, nasty little putdowns, like repeatedly calling somename whose name is Jack, "Jacko". (The smirk on your face...or at least in your mind...is quite evident and palpable when you say it.)

The nickname Jacko is something a lot of people habitually called Michael Jackson, and they didn't do it because they liked him. They were making fun of him and putting him down every time they did it.

Steve, I started encountering bullies from the moment I entered Grade 1 in primary school, and I know how they behave. They often don't call a person they're picking on by his real name, because they want to reduce his status and hurt him and make him "small"...it makes them feel in control, and makes them feel more powerful, and it pleases their sadistic desire to dominate and ridicule their target...so they call him by some scornful nickname. Like "Jacko". Or "Fatso". Or "Four Eyes". The names change, but the intention to hurt the other person is clearly there.

Your various rational arguments are certainly worthy of fair consideration in themselves, but your cavalier attitude toward the people you disagree with discredits your arguments and makes them hardly worth listening to. In short, you make it plain that you think anyone who doesn't see it your way is a dummy...simply because they don't agree with you about something. This is no way to relate to other people, Steve, and in real life (not in this safe little long distance environment of torturing and harassing other people through hostile keystrokes) it leads to a degree of risk, as we all know. So in real life...face to face...we usually restrain our meaner impulses. We ought best to restrain them here as well.

You will reap exactly what you sew in life, Steve. It just takes awhile to come to fruition, that's all.