Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him"

• Azzu@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, why? I do not grieve for most of people’s deaths.

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  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So your basic respect for them doesn’t necessitate your grieving their deaths?

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    • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Grieving one's death, and acknowledging that they have a horrible disease that will almost certainly lead them to a slow and painful death at their advanced age, are not the same thing.

      The thing about cancer, is that it doesn't care if you're a good guy or a bad guy. Cancer is random. Cancer is nature's Thanos-snap. One's actions leading up to a diagnosis are largely irrelevant.

      Cancer isn't a punishment. Though the people in this thread who seem to think it is, or perhaps want it to be, are failing a basic empathy test as spectacularly as Trump just did.

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      • K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You think the black men that got sent to prison because of his crime bill have any empathy about his cancer?

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    • Azzu@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Of course not. If I grieved every person’s death, I would be constantly grieving.

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      • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        IIUC, at least 40 000 Palestinians were killed by the IDF these past 3 years—essentially murdered. Would it be too much for you (i.e. presumably too time-consuming) to grieve their deaths?

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