To have some consolation, he died well below the average male life expectancy, so there's that.Its always a shame when good people die young, and bad people seemingly live forever.
Why? If someone is hateful and openly, proudly made the world a worse place while they were alive, why shouldn't we celebrate their deaths? People celebrate beating cancer, and caner is alive, is just happens to make you a worse place while its alive. If someone was a cancer on society and the human world as a whole, why shouldn't we celebrate? What do we owe their corpse, and how did they come to deserve it? That someone was merely a human in life is no reason to forgive them in death.I think there's a distinct difference between criticizing the dead for the deeds they did while alive and openly gloating that someone is dead. We can criticze Limbaugh for his hateful rhetoric, for paving the way for the bi-partisan issues in the USA, for opening up for "fake news" and laying all the groundwork for the alt right. That doesn't make it right or good to burn Limbaugh effigies in the street while popping Champagne and dancing on his grave.
The man literally claimed that lung cancer and smoking wasn't connected the goes on to die of lung cancer caused by smoking.I think there's a distinct difference between criticizing the dead for the deeds they did while alive and openly gloating that someone is dead. We can criticze Limbaugh for his hateful rhetoric, for paving the way for the bi-partisan issues in the USA, for opening up for "fake news" and laying all the groundwork for the alt right. That doesn't make it right or good to burn Limbaugh effigies in the street while popping Champagne and dancing on his grave.
Agreed, if he showed any hint of actually changing his ways prior to death, I might agree. I do believe that people always have the capacity to change, and can at one point, be a total asshole, but learn to be better. But Limbaugh didn't do that. He went to the grave, believing and spouting all the hateful shit he had been peddling for decades. So I have zero problem with saying I'm glad he's dead in that case.Why? If someone is hateful and openly, proudly made the world a worse place while they were alive, why shouldn't we celebrate their deaths? People celebrate beating cancer, and caner is alive, is just happens to make you a worse place while its alive. If someone was a cancer on society and the human world as a whole, why shouldn't we celebrate? What do we owe their corpse, and how did they come to deserve it? That someone was merely a human in life is no reason to forgive them in death.
And we're talking about someone who celebrated the deaths of gays and Muslims, and the Golden Rule says to treat others as we would want to be treated. So naturally we can assume Rush was treating dead gays as he himself would want to be treated in death.
I am the bigger person than him, in that I haven't peddled lies and hate speech for profit, and weaponized an entire demographic of a country with faleshoods and bigotry, pointing them at the rest of the world and damn the consequences. The idea that we have to be nice and tolerate them, regardless of how hateful and vitriolic they get, is part of the reason why we are in the situation we are currently in, in the US. And I'm frankly as tired of hearing it as I am from that side, suddenly shouting for "calls for unity in these troubled times", when THEY are the ones that fostered the divisions. Fuck them, and fuck Limbaugh. I'm glad he's dead.Because two wrongs doesn't make a right. There's an irony, and not the amusing kind, in hating someone because they are hateful. Being the bigger person some times suck, especially when you need to act decent to shitbags like Limbaugh, but not being so is stooping to his level. You hate him because he celebrated the death of gay people, so what makes you celebrating his death different? That he was a piece of shit human being? That is almost certainly what he thought about the gay people who's deaths he rejoiced about.
That is horseshit and you know it. You're not describing being a bigger person, you're describing being a victim. Turn the other cheek so they can hit you again. Standing up to bad people isn't wrong, its in fact right. Celebrating the death of bad people isn't wrong, its right.Because two wrongs doesn't make a right. There's an irony, and not the amusing kind, in hating someone because they are hateful. Being the bigger person some times suck, especially when you need to act decent to shitbags like Limbaugh, but not being so is stooping to his level. You hate him because he celebrated the death of gay people, so what makes you celebrating his death different? That he was a piece of shit human being? That is almost certainly what he thought about the gay people who's deaths he rejoiced about.
Except you're not accounting for the argument that he deserves it, whereas the people he celebrated dying didn'tYeah, I am not saying forgive him. I am saying that if you are dancing on his grave you've got no moral justification for condemning him for dancing on somebody else's.
Okay then in your opinion is it wrong to celebrate the death of Hitler? Sure we THINK he was a bad person, and in our OPINION the Holocaust was bad, but that's all subjective. Am I allowed to be glad he's dead?SNIP
Being the bigger person is how the good guys keep on losing.Because two wrongs doesn't make a right. There's an irony, and not the amusing kind, in hating someone because they are hateful. Being the bigger person some times suck, especially when you need to act decent to shitbags like Limbaugh, but not being so is stooping to his level.
Because gay people don't cause harm to people just by existing. Being gay and being a homophobic, racist, lying sack of shit aren't actually the same thing you see.You hate him because he celebrated the death of gay people, so what makes you celebrating his death different? That he was a piece of shit human being? That is almost certainly what he thought about the gay people who's deaths he rejoiced about.
The core of your argument is wrong, its a poor understanding of morality. It implies being moral and immoral are equals because everyone is separate from one another. That there is no such thing as morally right or morally wrong, because its all a matter of opinion. And that's a poor understanding of morality.I mean, this moral exceptionalism is explicitly what I object to. Good job on writing that much without understanding the ethical issue at the core of the argument.