Buddhism

Bad here is obviously loaded and murky, but I mean someone who habitually caused suffering to others either intentionally or with wanton disregard for their well-being. Someone who profited off of inciting violence against others. Someone who was unrepentant and unlikely to have changed their ways.

That happened today. My reaction was... not compassionate and equanimous, but I am unsure how one should view events like these.

On the one hand this was a person theoretically capable of goodness and compassion even if they did not typically manifest those traits. They had a family who loved them. They were a person deserving of compassion as are their family members.

On the other hand, this person will not continue to cause suffering to others. Their death might be used as a pretext to cause greater suffering, but they themselves will not cause further harm. The way by which their capacity for harm was diminished was not good, but the fact that they will not continue to cause harm is good.

Are there suttas or any other works that touch on these topics? Or on right view/right thought about people who have caused a great deal of harm dying/being killed?

Edit:

I found 2 suttas that clarify the Buddhist view:

• The smile of the saw

• Angulimala

The question I am still struggling with is how Buddhism would address the paradox of tolerance - that toleration of the intolerant will lead to a destruction of tolerance.

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“Whoever returns insult to one who is insulting, returns taunts to one who is taunting, returns a berating to one who is berating, is said to be eating together, sharing company, with that person. But I am neither eating together nor sharing your company, brahman. It’s all yours. It’s all yours.”

Near Sāvatthī.

“Monks, before my self-awakening, when I was still just an unawakened bodhisatta, the thought occurred to me: ‘What is the allure of form? What is its drawback? What is its escape?

“‘What is the allure of feeling? What is its drawback? What is its escape?

“‘What is the allure of perception? What is its drawback? What is its escape?

“‘What is the allure of fabrications? What is their drawback? What is their escape?

“‘What is the allure of consciousness? What is its drawback? What is its escape?’

“Then the thought occurred to me, ‘Whatever pleasure & joy arises dependent on form: That is the allure of form. The fact that form is inconstant, stressful, subject to change: That is the drawback of form. The subduing of desire & passion, the abandoning of desire & passion for form: That is the escape from form.

[Similarly with feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness.]

“Monks, as long as I did not have direct knowledge, as it had come to be, of the allure as allure, of the drawback as drawback, and of the escape as escape, with regard to these five clinging-aggregates, I did not claim to have directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled in the cosmos with its devas, Māras, & Brahmās, in this generation with its contemplatives & brahmans, its royalty & common people.

“But when I did have direct knowledge, as it had come to be, of the allure as allure, the drawback as drawback, and the escape as escape, with regard to these five clinging-aggregates, then I did claim to have directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled in the cosmos with its devas, Māras, & Brahmās, in this generation with its contemplatives & brahmans, its royalty & common people.

“Knowledge & vision arose in me: ‘Unprovoked is my release. This is the last birth. There is now no further-becoming.’”

Near Sāvatthī.

“Monks, abandon any desire & passion for form. Thus that form will be abandoned, its root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising.

“Abandon any desire & passion for feeling…

“Abandon any desire & passion for perception…

“Abandon any desire & passion for fabrications…

“Abandon any desire & passion for consciousness. Thus that consciousness will be abandoned, its root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising.”

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