Of course not. If I grieved every person’s death, I would be constantly grieving.
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DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 day agoSo your basic respect for them doesn’t necessitate your grieving their deaths?
Azzu@leminal.space 1 day ago
Chozo@fedia.io 1 day 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.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You think the black men that got sent to prison because of his crime bill have any empathy about his cancer?
Chozo@fedia.io 1 day ago
Why don't you go ask 'em and find out? Instead of just using black people as an argumentative scapegoat, that is.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know the answer. The question was “YOU THINK…” which you promptly deflected from