[Buddha-l] Compassionate Violence?

[Richard Hayes]

On May 31, 2013, at 18:41, "Dan Lusthaus" <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:

> “If I extinguish the life of that evil sentient being I will fall into hell; if I don’t extinguish [his life], numerous heinous crimes will be committed (by him) so he will experience great suffering (in the future in recompense). I will kill him and fall into hell so that in the end he won't have to experience interminable (ānantara) suffering.”
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> The Bodhisattva deeply ponders whether his intention toward that sentient being is with a karmically-wholesome mind (kuśala citta) or a karmically neutral mind (avyākṛta-citta). Knowing what the future [consequences] of this affair will be, he feels profound shame; with a sympathetic mind (anukaṃpā-citta) he extinguishes that one’s life. For that reason nothing is transgressed, but, instead, numerous merits issue forth from the Bodhisattva's moral discipline.

If nothing is transgressed, why does the bodhisattva go to hell? Going to hell isn't usually portrayed as a consequence of doing a deed from which numerous merits issue. 

This sounds like a typical muddle of the sort we often find in the bodhisattva literature.

Richard Hayes