>>149032864
Is this what they call a threat?

In my head a threat is delivered to the threatened person.
>"Something awful will happen to you in 24 hours".
>"Be careful what you do, someone may want to shoot you".
>"My boys will find you and they will chop you to pieces".

If you speak to your own mother about me and say
>"I have in mind to kill anon"
or
>"I think somebody should kill anon"
or even
>"anon absolutely deserves to die"
and then afterwards I find out about this conversation you had, I'd say you're conspiring to kill me, you're maybe instigating it, or setting up a plan to kill me, but I wouldn't call it "threatening me".

Is "death threat" how the English language describes any instigation?
You can threaten someone behind his back without him ever feeling threatened directly?