• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Mourning and/or condemning the dead is done so for the living, not the dead.

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      7 months ago

      Why would the living care about what you think of a dead person? I couldn’t give less of a care about what you think of any dead person I happen to have known.

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        7 months ago

        Hypothetical: Someone you know unironically, unjokingly says they believe Adolf Hitler was an amazing leader, does it effect your opinion of the person you know?

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          I know that a percentage of society do in fact believe that and then the numbers are inflated by the edgy comments some people need to make so I wouldn’t be surprised by it. I’m really failing to find a scenario where I would care about someone’s tweet dancing on another’s grave. It’s so common for netizens to pride themselves on being flippant about deaths other than their own.

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            7 months ago

            You’re saying if someone said that, you wouldn’t think more or less of them or their positions?

            You’d be neutral to such a declaration in dealing with such a person? Because I would do my weather best never to go near or interact with such a person again if I could help it. I would tend to disregard the opinions of a vocal Hitler fan.

            I wouldn’t be like “who cares, Hitler is dead, if you enjoyed accounts of his work, you do you. It will have no bearing on my impression of your policy positions.”