On so many different news items, threads, etc. People are the first to claim pretty much anyone who has made a mistake, or does something they disagree with deserves to die.

Like, do some people not have the capability to empathise and realise they might have been in a similar place if they were born in a different environment…

I genuinely understand, you think a politician who has lead to countless deaths, a war criminal, or a mass rapists deserves to die.

But here people say it for stuff that falls way below the bar.

A contracted logger of a rainforest (who knows if they have the money / opportunity to support their family another way). Deserves to die.

A civilian of Nazi germany of whom we know nothing about their collaboration/agreement with the regime. Deserves to die.

Some person who was a drug dealer and then served their time. Deserves to die.

Like I don’t get it? Are people not able to imagine the kind of situations that create these people, and that it’s not impossible to imagine the large majority of people in these positions if born in a different environment?

  • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    We’ve been transitioning from a dignity culture to a victimhood/outrage culture for most of my adult life. The relevant one here is the outrage culture, where people are trying their damnedest to be the most outraged. Nothing shows that you are more are outraged by something than suggesting that someone should die for being in disagreement with you.

    • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve seen this one before, but the alt text had me in a (silent) laughing fit anyways.

        • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
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          2 months ago

          It sounds like you were on the end of the chain in a game of telephone.

          When Fred Trump III asked his uncle Donald Trump for money to help with his disabled son’s medical care, he says the former U.S. president suggested letting the young man die instead.

          I could see how politicized media could morph that into “disabled people should just die” for clicks, though.

  • Spazz@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    Screw this bullshit, stop trying to normalize the deadly atrocious behavior from these right wing zealots

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Oh no, won’t someone think of the people speed running the destruction of our planet and causing suffering to so many innocent people.

        • mecfs@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 months ago

          Yeah I’m all for killing the few politicians and billionaires doing that, if they don’t stop with warning. Because they are the root of the problem.

          But killing the many working class people who may have little choice and not have the education necessary to know they are contributing to bad is counterproductive and difficult to justify.

    • mecfs@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Partly. But it’s been building up in me for the past few months. Like I legitimately see it every day on lemmy.