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gut

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May 3, 2011 12:24 PM
Seeing people celebrate like their team just won the SB didn't sit well with me on multiple levels.
May 3, 2011 12:24pm
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tcarrier32

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May 3, 2011 12:48 PM
jmog;758130 wrote:Do I think he deserved to die and justice was served? Yes.

Did I "rejoice"? No.

Just like if I had a family member murdered. I would want the murderer dead but I wouldn't rejoice when it happened ..


Relieved is a more adequate response I think.

+1

i'm not one to preach morality, but i dont understand how it's acceptable to celebrate the death of another human.
May 3, 2011 12:48pm
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WebFire

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May 3, 2011 2:33 PM
Toughen up Francis!
May 3, 2011 2:33pm
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se-alum

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May 3, 2011 2:38 PM
gut;757674 wrote:Agreed. Watching the celebrations made me a little sick as it reminded me of celebrations in the Middle East on 9/11. Celebrating his death? No thanks. We've moved on. We've recovered. To me the cheering shows weakness and is also something we should be better than.

Bring the troops home. That's something worthy and deserving of celebrating.
Celebrating the death of 3,000 innocent civilians is a bit different from celebrating the death of the person that caused so many lives to be lost.
May 3, 2011 2:38pm
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May 3, 2011 2:40 PM
se-alum;758303 wrote:Celebrating the death of 3,000 innocent civilians is a bit different from celebrating the death of the person that caused so many lives to be lost.

Morality wise? IMO no they're not. Celebrating a death is celebrating a death, and some on here feel it shouldn't be done, and I respect their opinion but disagree.

I personally feel no shame in celebrating this douchebag's death.
May 3, 2011 2:40pm
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gut

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May 3, 2011 3:02 PM
se-alum;758303 wrote:Celebrating the death of 3,000 innocent civilians is a bit different from celebrating the death of the person that caused so many lives to be lost.

Like I said, there are multiple angles beyond the point you highlighted above. And one of those angles is I thought the celebrations showed (or could be perceived that way) that we haven't healed, and thus Bin Laden scores a victory even in his death.

I'm glad justice was served, but I strongly feel that Bin Laden deserved a death without fanfare. You don't give power to what he did or inspiration to his followers by having any outward emotional response to his death - he'd become irrelevant and marginalized, and now he's dead.
May 3, 2011 3:02pm
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May 3, 2011 11:33 PM
No one has said the dude didn't deserve to be killed. Some just think that celebrating any death isn't something we should do.

You can be glad about the death of someone like Bin Laden without being outwardly bombastic about it.
May 3, 2011 11:33pm
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bigkahuna

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May 3, 2011 11:40 PM
I honestly don't think that people are celebrating his death. It's more so celebrating a victory over him and what he stood for.

A lot of people (not accurately of course) feel like "We won"

If we would have captured him and brought him back to the US for indictment/imprisonment/...., people would have celebrated the same way because we finally did it.

I honestly don't remember, did we celebrate like this with Saddam?
May 3, 2011 11:40pm
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Skyhook79

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May 3, 2011 11:53 PM
"I honestly don't remember, did we celebrate like this with Saddam?"


No, not even close but Saddam wasn't gunned down by the Navy seals he was hung by his own people. I really think people are celebrating the way Bin Laden was killed more.
May 3, 2011 11:53pm
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bigkahuna

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May 4, 2011 12:20 AM
I remember there being a press conference with "We Got 'Em," but that's it. That's what I was talking about, with finding him in the hole.

I'll agree with the fact that part of the celebration was the bad ass way it was handled.
May 4, 2011 12:20am