1) No I do not apply this to every single situation because that would be dumb. This isn't a computer program. This is real life. You take things case by case. But generally speaking wishing death upon someone is fucked up and there are very, very few exceptions. It doesn't always make you an evil human being, but it is fucked up almost always.
2) Do yourself a favor and leave Hitler out of your arguement. bringing Hitler into a discussion just kills any point because it is the biggest extreme you can go to and shows you really have no other argument to make. When someone is trying to talk about morality and then someone else says "yeah but what about Hitler?" it just goes no where. In these moral issues Hitler tend to be the exception to the rule. Congrats you found the loophole. It's Hitler. You scraped the bottom of the barrel for that one. Sugiyama is a terrible, rotten human being, but he is not Hitler. No one is Hitler. There is a special place in hell for someone who laughs at LGBTQ suicide, but it is still fucked up to say "I hope he dies."
3) Even on the Hitler point: wouldn't it have been better to, I don't know, take him in alive? Have him answer for his crimes? It's almost certainly the death penalty so it's a bit redundant and I'm not about to get into a debate on the death penalty, but the point is people were more happy that a dictator was taken out of power and that an evil empire fell than they were about a dude dying. And again to point #2, Hitler was the biggest human piece of trash in history by an immeasurable long shot so he's kind of the exception to the rule and if people were genuinely happy he died and actively rooting for it I would find it hard to say that's fucked up.
I'm not posting about this any more. This is it. I simply said people who were wishing for his death are fucked up. I was and still am a little irked that they weren't warned for wishing death upon someone. I am in no way defending Sugiyama. You cannot interpret otherwise because I am telling you plain and simple that I am not. I do not believe that was an interpretation anyone held, but I'm just covering my bases. He is human garbage. But you don't wish death on people. I am done saying this because I feel that the more I say it the more I align myself with him which I do not intend to do.
if you think wishing death on someone is ok and justifiable then you are wrong.
