Poll: Hoping a Couple Breaks Up; Right/Wrong?

[Yopaz]

It's been said before, but as long as you're not making them break up it's not morally wrong. You can't really help the way you're feeling. Let it be said that I wouldn't consider you a good friend though, but again, it's not easy to stop feeling what you feel.

Neither good nor bad, though I guess we could assume that you consider the distance a strain on their relationship causing both of them stress and that if they break up and if they get together with someone that are physically closer (in her case you) then that could possibly be considered morally good.

 

[randomrob]

Something is only morally wrong if you intend to do something morally wrong, or you did something morally wrong deliberately. Wishing things were different is never wrong. It's only if you act on those desires that they can have moral properties. To take a nice controversial example: Being attracted to children isn't morally wrong, acting on that attraction is wrong. Similarly, wanting to kill someone isn't wrong, actually killing them is wrong. And in your case, wanting two people to break up isn't wrong. Breaking them up would be wrong.

 

[Angie7F]

Totally OK.
I mean, even if you thought it was wrong, I dont think you will be able to shake off the feeling that you want them to break up anyways.
As long as you dont do things to sabotage them, you are allowed to think whatever you like.

 

[Guffe]

Just hoping isn't wrong.
You doing something so that they have to break up... that'd be wrong.
I have a friend whom I hoped would end it with his girlfriend but that was just because I think they were together just so they'd have someone to have sex with, there was no intellctual thing and they were always fighting which sucked ass when the rest of us tried to have a good time. They have broken up now and I think it's for the better.
So there are different reason why people should break up, just hoping isn't wrong and if they do break up, well why not just give it a go then...