Is willingness enough? (AKA, another pointless alignment thread)

[Thane of Fife]

Wow, this thread has made me really glad that nobody can know what I'm really thinking IRL.

The point isn't that thinking evil thoughts makes you evil, it's that being willing to do evil makes you evil:

Wishing that the person you're arguing with was dead is perfectly fine, as long as you wouldn't actually murder them given the perfect opportunity.

People are saying that being willing to do that would make you evil, not that wishing it were true does.