The befriended, in this case, puts his boss, who passed him over for a promotion, the guy who got the promotion, a bookie, his best friend, who he thinks is sleeping with his wife, and his wife on the list. Ha! Ha! If it were a joke, would it be funny?
While the man who makes the list does so in a drunken stupor and believing that none of it is real, it still begs the question – “What does a hit list actually mean?”
By putting people on a hit list, what the maker of that list is essentially saying is that the person has no chance for redemption. The people on a hit list have no opportunity to become better people. It is a cynical expression that lacks hope for humanity.
I get mad at people, but I don’t want any of them to die; I want them to be better people. Even if I believe that they will always be the same, I hold out hope that they might treat their friends and family better at some point in the future because they learned something somewhere about the importance of loving relationships during the courses of their lives.
If they are dead, they cannot be better; they can only be dead. In the end, that doesn’t benefit anyone.