(September 11, 2022 at 7:03 am)Woah0 Wrote:(September 11, 2022 at 6:57 am)Belacqua Wrote: I remember when John McCain died. There was a thread about him on The [S]inking Atheist web site. I pointed out that he was a blood-stained war-monger and the world was better off without him.
Boy, that triggered people. You must never speak ill of the recently dead!
Except it looks as if you can, actually.
Yeah but Queen Elizabeth 2 isnt exactly a warmonger. Since UK isnt a absolute monarchy, its a symbolic thing is all. If it was a British politican who was that, then ok all shots fired.
Yeah, people can debate about the evil of the regime she represented, but I don't think she was personally responsible. As you say, it's symbolic.
But if that's true then it's bad to speak ill of her when she's recently dead. Unlike John McCain. But that rule seems to be pretty flexible.
