Deliberate Hatred

[Neil_Anthony]

The Catechism says in 2302 and 2303 that anger and hatred can be mortal sins when one deliberately wishes to kill or seriously wound a neighbour.

Could someone help me understand what deliberate means in this context… usually I experience anger and hatred as passions, and I’m not sure how ‘deliberate’ fits in. For example, if someone cuts me off in traffic and I get angry and daydream about running his car off the road, is that deliberate? Even if I wouldn’t do it?

 

[BlaineTog]

If you’re allowing yourself to have those fantasies, then it’s sinful. If you’re having those fantasies to help you plan how to actually enact then, then it’s mortally sinful.

 

[Neil_Anthony]

If you’re allowing yourself to have those fantasies, then it’s sinful. If you’re having those fantasies to help you plan how to actually enact then, then it’s mortally sinful.

Thanks