Celebrating People's Death - Justified or Not?

With the recent deaths of Charlie Munger and Henry Kissinger, I've noticed a lot of people celebrating their demise on various social media platforms. With Charlie Munger, it's mostly been the far left tankie types who hate every billionaire and think no one can get rich without exploitation. I understand that Henry Kissinger is responsible for some horrible things, but he was still respected by many for his accomplishments and the idea of celebrating someone's death just doesn't sit right with me. It seems in poor taste, won't undo the past, and creates more hatred and polarization. Thoughts?

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I saw social media posters applauding the death of a 4 year old girl in Gaza. Video showed her body being wrapped in plastic. Before I saw the comments I thought social media users wouldn't stoop so low. Even if the platform is anonymous, there is no way someone can applaud something so awful. Needless to say I was wrong. I don't know if people are just really evil or if they are joking. Either way it's a vicious world.

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I don’t remember 9/11 but I remember first hearing of Bin Laden’s death. I was living on base, so they told us in school the day it happened. They announced it that morning then played the song God Bless the USA over the intercom. Everyone pretty much thought this meant our dads would be finally coming home from the Middle East, so we were pretty hyped. That said nobody was celebrating his death with tasteless Instagram posts like I’ve seen tankies, demsocs, and left libs posting about Kissinger this week…

I think it’s in poor taste no matter what the person supposedly did. I’m seeing it a lot more of it from the left nowadays and it definitely erodes some of the ‘humanitarian’ image some of them have tried to portray. Not like any group that is so apologetic of jihadi terrorism and communist atrocities could be considered humanitarian, but they’ve tried.

 

I don't celebrate Kissinger's death, I'm just celebrating that he's finally burning in hell for all eternity.  

I think people get what they deserve: if someone was horrible, it's glorious when they finally rid us of themselves.  If someone was a victim, then it's a tragedy.

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Social media is only successful because society is made up of assholes.  The sooner you realize that the better off you will be.   Individuals are amazing, however once you put those indivudlas into groups they lose all of their ability to sympathize and rationalize.  This is why mobs behave the way they do.  It is a green light to stoop to the morality of the lowest domoninator.  With social media the lowest common demoninator is usually a terrorist or fucking brain dead 20 year old that can barely tie their own shoes. 

 

Celebrating Osama bin Laden's death seemed legit.

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