• Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org
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    19 hours ago

    I get your point but it feels like just a spin on the paradox of tolerance.

    My enemy in this case is laughing at something they support happening to someone they don’t support.

    I am (not really) laughing at something i don’t support that happend to someone who does supports that thing.

    The thing here being, far too easy acces to firearms and the inevitable deaths resulting from it.

    I also feel like its more a dopamine approval of the general karma of the situation then it is a literal celebration of lost life.

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      18 hours ago

      I’m not advocating tolerance. The key difference is laughing at someone’s death isn’t just an expression of disapproval, it is a devaluation of human life in general. It isn’t a question of being justified in laughing at their demise because they laughed at horrible things; the very act of laughing degrades yourself.

      Let me put it another way: Epstein and his accomplices deserved to be gang raped by all of us in prison. Should we run a train on them? No! Because that defiles us as much as it does them.