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No. Spite is hurting yourself to hurt someone else. A desire for karma is willing to hurt yourself for justice. They look very similar, but are different.


> Spite is hurting yourself to hurt someone else.

That is incorrect, spite is seeking the deliberate harm of another. It’s possible for spite to include hurting yourself to inflict it, but that’s not in any way necessary.


Sure, and karma doesn't require hurting yourself either. I meant in the specific case we were discussing, in which harming yourself was already baked into the situation. I admit I could have been clearer initially and am sorry I spoke clumsily.




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