Post#5 » Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:04 pm
Yes, I think so too, my approach is more related to the spiritual side, on the other hand to spend most of the time attacking others is the main reason why many magickians never get their head out of the water, wasting their time in such small egocentric wars.
OK, my attention is not dragged by the "Level of malice of intent of perpetrator" because, for me and my resources, is hard to determine that and it becomes a kind subjective assessment, so I don't take this into account.
Well, basically my only concern is about my family, any harm towards me that causes an actual harm to my family is enough for me to take a defensive action.
So, my take is to try to nullify the action against me/my family more than to try to cause a direct harm to the attacker, in the meantime I don't care about what happen to that person when the attack is nullified and the harm is returned; nevertheless I've been tempted many times to actually destroy the wrongdoer, but I guess where would that take me in the long run? Would I become a careless person that kills or causes harm just out of rage? Is that the real me? So long I've been able to solve the issues without having to resort to that measure, at the end for me is an issue of my right to self defense, if my life or the life of my loved ones depends on it and there's no other choice I won't hesitate to excercise that option.
Btw, I don't care about karma.
Regards,
SPL