Is it not obvious? Curses are the intentional transferrence of negative energy and consequences from one party to another for a specific reason and purpose. There is a source and a result. It's magical thinking, but there is some sort of logic behind it. Jinxes imply that the universe arbitrarily acts in opposition to you based on a random comment. Believing in such requires an enormous level of pessimism and arrogance to believe that simply speaking positivity is sufficient for whatever prevailing higher powers exist to seek to prevent that good from occurring. It's perfectly understandable why someone would believe in curses but not jinxes.
They're both completely devoid of logic. The assignment of causality to mysterious unseen forces that cannot be observed or tested.
If you insist in interpreting through your own personal sphere of understanding, sure. If you're willing to step outside yourself for a bit, you might be able to see how one could differentiate one from the other.
When presented in Hindu terms, sure. But "What a man sows, he shall also reap" is Biblical doctrine as well.
Nah, that's what Meyers is for! With one punch he could redeem his entire career and win back all the fans that scorn his every breath.
The turkey's a little dry?! O, foul and cursed thing! What demon from the depths of Hell created thee?!!
Only an insult to someone from generation snowflake, otherwise not so much. Actually, to generation snowflake it is literal battery. Call the police.
I can see how you could differentiate the two, but differentiating the two requires making one's own rules about what kind of "magic" (for lack of a better word about forces that can't be observed, measured or reasoned about) is sensible and realistic and what kind of magic isn't. Which is still a lot to swallow for someone who doesn't share your rules. In other words, I think it's fair to say, "It's internally consistent to believe in curses but not jinxes," but it's also fair to say, "Even if it's internally consistent, you still need a layer of arbitrariness to reach that consistency."
All true. But we all approach life with our own sets of assumptions. What makes one person's arbitrariness selections better than another's? It's all about perception. My point was never that it's more logical to believe in curses than jinxes; simply that it's not difficult to explain why someone might take that viewpoint.