One of the most disturbing things I’ve watched during the last 2 years is the number of people:
1. Celebrating the deaths of people who didn’t get vaccinated because they were pro.
2. Mocking the deaths of anyone who died from Covid under the assumption that it’s being politically over-labeled.
There’s a sign in a funeral home in my hometown with a quote that leaves me very disturbed about our future.
“Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.”
I don't "celebrate" their deaths, but when someone uses a position of authority to endanger others by discouraging basic measures like getting vaccines and staying 6+ feet apart, or by claiming the disease is a librul plot, and then dies of the disease, I can't help but feel some schadenfreude.
I still feel bad for their families. Not only did they lose a loved one, they learned the relative value their loved one placed on their lives. That is tragic.
That does not sound very convincing. I think "Schadenfreude" in this case is an expression of an inferiority complex to be honest. Your pathos for victims doesn't seem to be genuine, it sounds like a pretext to be able to blame others, preferably along some partisan lines.
I am vaccinated but I don't believe unvaccinated people endanger me or other unvaccinated people, nor that we should mandate vaccination, especially not for young people. I assume that sooner or later we will have a conflict, it is fairly predictable.
I think the overarching disturbing thing that leads to other disturbing things like that is a basic disregard for common decency in dialog, or, more simply, an enormous partisan divide.
When you have one side arguing they don’t want to get vaccinated because only old or unhealthy people are at risk, where is their empathy? Where is their care for not just the dead but the living and vulnerable? All this because medicine has been politicized by hucksters and opportunists.
The public shaming of figures like Herman Cain who contributed to the anti-vaccination discourse that is leading to thousands of preventable deaths is arguably justifiable when the person who died contributed via public statements to the spread of deadly misinformation.
1. Celebrating the deaths of people who didn’t get vaccinated because they were pro.
2. Mocking the deaths of anyone who died from Covid under the assumption that it’s being politically over-labeled.
There’s a sign in a funeral home in my hometown with a quote that leaves me very disturbed about our future. “Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.”
- William E. Gladstone