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[–] FishFace@piefed.social -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you set your own standards, then yeah... you can tell "a lot" about someone by how people react to their death, if what you want to be able to tell is a mere reinforcement of your existing beliefs.

Because you can interpret every statement of grief as genuine (if sympathetic) or manipulative (if not); every statement of anger as an expression of genuine grief (if sympathetic) or impotent rage (if not); every statement of hatred as despicable exploitation (if sympathetic) or righteous (if not).

And then you can, like the OP, post about how this is an amazing rule of thumb, that it offers amazing insight, as if it were anything other than a mirror for your preconceptions.

Here's an honest question: have you ever applied OP's rule of thumb after someone died and thought, "huh, guess I was wrong about them?" Or did it always confirm what you already believed?

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It fully depends on the available information, doesn't it?

Without information there cannot be judgment.

And if the information I get shows that a person was a bad person by my standards then my opinion sure doesn't discriminate between them still being alive or not.

If someone I liked dies and suddenly it turns out they were only likable in pretense or were secretly an asshole to others then that is new information that changes how I regard them. Yes, absolutely.

And when I got to see information on this Kirk person I could not see how his existence improved any lives except those who were like hom who didn't really care about him as much as they did regard him as a tool for their agendas.

At most they are sad to have lost a pawn.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

This all seems to be in theory.