Anonymous .serase. 30w

How is it that we must forgive every dead oppressor and shitty person their crimes and hatred when they’re dead?

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Anonymous .serase. 30w

Don’t have to forgive to give respect

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Anonymous #1 30w

You think I respect him? Why would I respect people I can’t even forgive? Respect is to be earned. This isn’t some morally complex character like Julius Caesar, or Winston Churchill. Where depending on my stance on issues, I could weigh their good against their bad and decide they deserve some respect despite their actions being unconscionable.

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Anonymous .serase. 30w

I didn’t say respect what he did. Nor did I say respect who he was. Just respecting the inherent value of him being human. I don’t like seeing humans being killed and neither should you.

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Anonymous #1 30w

What’s the inherent value in being human? I don’t ask this as a some affront to what you’re saying, but genuinely. Where does this value come from? It can’t be the value of being a living thing, because we don’t care about the rest of them on this planet half as much as we do a single human who looks like us. Are we ascribing value to being the same species as us? But then why do we mourn more for this one man, for being well known, or a celebrity than we do for thousands dead in famines?

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