• @AllonzeeLV
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    6 months ago

    “A man has died! Have you no decency?!”

    Well on the one hand maybe I do, and on the other hand maybe I don’t. Clearly the truth is somewhere in the middle.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      “I didn’t personally know them, so I can’t really speak to their life or character. But to their loved ones: I’m sorry for your loss.”

  • Schwim Dandy
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    46 months ago

    I don’t think the dead are losing much sleep over your reaction to their demise.

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      6 months ago

      Mourning and/or condemning the dead is done so for the living, not the dead.

      • Schwim Dandy
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        -66 months ago

        Why would the living care about what you think of a dead person? I couldn’t give less of a care about what you think of any dead person I happen to have known.

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          6 months ago

          Hypothetical: Someone you know unironically, unjokingly says they believe Adolf Hitler was an amazing leader, does it effect your opinion of the person you know?

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            -46 months ago

            I know that a percentage of society do in fact believe that and then the numbers are inflated by the edgy comments some people need to make so I wouldn’t be surprised by it. I’m really failing to find a scenario where I would care about someone’s tweet dancing on another’s grave. It’s so common for netizens to pride themselves on being flippant about deaths other than their own.

            • @AllonzeeLV
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              You’re saying if someone said that, you wouldn’t think more or less of them or their positions?

              You’d be neutral to such a declaration in dealing with such a person? Because I would do my weather best never to go near or interact with such a person again if I could help it. I would tend to disregard the opinions of a vocal Hitler fan.

              I wouldn’t be like “who cares, Hitler is dead, if you enjoyed accounts of his work, you do you. It will have no bearing on my impression of your policy positions.”

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          26 months ago

          They’re the only people who care.

  • Zuberi 👀
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    06 months ago

    A centrist would be to the left of legit most of the libs in here