'Spiritual one-upmanship', is it good or bad?

[Thaniyo_Bhikkhu]

Are unkind words wrong speech?

Continuing the discussion from Reincarnation: Hi Karl I would not call what you referred to as ‘stupid behaviour’, but rather ‘dangerous behaviour’, as it was life threatening. It may also be ‘stupid’ but that is a secondary issue to me. Yes, kind words are easy/easier to hear, but the Buddha saying ‘Devadatta, you are bound for hell’, or ‘Bhikkhu Sāti, you are a fool’ do not seem like the kind of expressions you are promoting. One of the qualities of Right Speech as I understand it is, ‘unp…

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