Fly4Fun;1461687 wrote:There is a difference between personal attacks/trolling and having a controversial opinion.
Also, I think Like_that inadvertently makes an interesting point.
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Is it really that far fetched for human society to laugh at people dying? Our entertainment industry does it all the time whether it be through movies, television or even video games. American society has made death a billion dollar industry. Now obviously not all death depicted is meant to elicit laughter, sometimes it is meant to elicit shock, terror, sadness, etc. But it does target laughter sometimes.
Now in conjunction with that, in general internet message boards tend to have a dehumanizing characteristic in that people will often say or do things that would normally be considered socially unacceptable and offensive. You can see that to varying degrees on just about any message board. Whether that is because of the relative anonymity or the lack of actual social interaction or a combination of both that encourages this is irrelevant.
And between those two proceeding paragraphs I'm not entirely surprised that someone would have this kind of reaction sadly. But beyond that, we've had similar sentiments before such as people wishing death on others because of their opinion. We have people who literally spew hate at each other over their sports affiliations and/or opinion about sports. Some of these hateful interactions even boil over into threats of physical harm.
Anyways, just something I briefly thought of when reading like_that's post. I don't really think this kind of reaction to death is really that far fetched. But as I said earlier, I definitely do not believe it to be appropriate. But it is his opinion and he's entitled to it. Just as we don't ban people for being racists or prejudiced we won't ban said for having a socially unacceptable view towards real human death.
Do you fucking masturbate to yourself when you type out these unnecessary tl;dr posts? No one was discussing whether said's post was surprising or not, especially considering the fact we all know he is a piece of shit. Laughing at an innocent person's death is a complete joke, period.