People often say to themselves that they would like to kill another person. But it is not the thought, but the emotion behind it that leads us astray.
This is why the abstract, the seven deadly sins, is a very useful tool, because it identifies the real villain behind the scenes. Not in the sense of “The devil made me do it”, but in recognizing the impulses within and countering them.
In the author’s case, the sin behind the thought is, of course, lust. Lust is always there, because it is a part of us. But how we overcome lust, so that we do not act on it, or let it harm us within, is the real battle.
Importantly, the king of the sins is vanity. Not as easy to understand as the others, vanity is the arrogant belief in what you think, feel and do.
The Democrat party, at their last convention, rejected God three times. This was because vanity is their primary sin, and from it, they admire and honor the other sins, to the point where the seven deadly sins are part of their party platform.
In what way did they do that? I didn't follow it.