(April 16, 2014 at 6:54 am)bennyboy Wrote:(April 15, 2014 at 11:59 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: This is a good point: there's a difference between celebrating and being remorseless.I don't see the problem. If someone who you know has willingly harmed others, including women and children, dies, then you should throw a goddamn tickertape parade. Give everyone a day off school. Pray for a day that hell is real so that fucker can go there.
I don't think there is a problem.
For instance, when Bin Laden was killed I was 100% remorseless, and had I actually thought something would change because of his death (the end of Al Qaeda, the end of terrorism in general, the end of Islamist fundamentalism, the end of something, or at least the beginning of the demise of any of these things) I probably would have celebrated. But I didn't think any of those things would happen simply because Bin Laden was killed.
Had I lived in 1945 and had just gotten the news that Hitler had committed suicide, I would have been remorseless and would probably have celebrated since the tides of the war had turned by that point, and Hitler's death would be a signal of things changing.
By saying that there's a difference between being remorseless and celebrating a death I'm not saying that one is better than the other, I'm saying that there is a difference of attitude between the two, there is a difference in expectations.
(April 16, 2014 at 10:24 am)Kitanetos Wrote:(April 15, 2014 at 11:59 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: This is a good point: there's a difference between celebrating and being remorseless.
I have no problem being remorseless.
Me neither. I also don't have a problem celebrating a death if I feel it's warranted. And that's the thing: everyone feels differently about certain people's deaths, and some people's deaths deserve to be celebrated.
I'm sure there will be people celebrating Obama's death when it comes and some that will mourn it, just as there will be people celebrating Bush Jr.'s death when it comes and some that will mourn it. Some will celebrate Dick Cheney's death and some won't, some will celebrate Kim Kardashian's death, some won't.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
