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Imma pin this one up for now.
Please remember the rule on celebrating death. Graham was an asshole, that should be enough.
In March 2016, Graham said: "I want you to use my words against me. If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination." [1, 2]
What, pray tell, is the “rule” about celebrating death? It couldn’t possibly be some absolute Reddit shit, could it?
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What a stupid rule
Any good justification for this rule you can think of?
Can we still celebrate the sudden reduction in evil secondary to his death?
I wouldn't have a problem with that. I'd add that today seems 2.85714286E−9% brighter without him in it.
Maybe amend the rule to "celebrating death of actual human beings". There's one person whose death will be celebrated far and wide, for sure.
The issue is that what is presented as a single rule is actually several different rules crammed into one sentence. It strings together multiple distinct ideas with commas, making it unclear where one prohibition ends and another begins. If each of those ideas is meant to stand on its own, they should be written as separate rules rather than bundled together under a single heading.
Secondly, "celebrating death" is an extremely vague concept. Many cultures celebrate death in one form or another. Hindus, for example, have traditions that celebrate the passage into the next life. Creole culture also has a long history of turning funerals into communal celebrations.
Moreover, what exactly constitutes a celebration of death? If someone feels happy that a particular person has died, they are not necessarily celebrating death itself. They are simply acknowledging that someone they disliked is gone and, in their view, that the world is objectively better off as a result.
So if I say, "I am happy that so-and-so died," that is not, in and of itself, a morally reprehensible statement. It merely expresses an individual's emotions. No one is obligated to like another person or to feel sadness when they die. Death itself is not a moral act; the act of taking a life is. In this case, the individual died naturally rather than as the result of anyone's actions.
As a result, I see no compelling reason why death itself should never be celebrated, whether the sentiment is meant to admonish the deceased or to honor them.
"or" makes it clear to anyone with an understanding of English that these are each separate items.
What a weird rule.
Hitler dies, and we're not allowed to celebrate? Putin dies, we can't talk about how great it is that the warmongering fascist is no longer haunting the rest of us with war?
C'mon.
We have to keep Lemmy advertiser-friendly!
IDK. The rules can say whatever they want. When a person who wants me and my friends dead, dies, I’m going to be happy about it.
It's cool, you should have seen the crap we removed when Carter died. We aren't playing sides here, that's why it's in the side bar.
The UK has an entire holiday based around burning an effigy of a person you hate... I think we should be able to say we enjoy that he is dead to no longer hurt the living.
This guy was a literal mass murderer akin to a modern day Nazi but keep pretending like there is some "civility".