• majster@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    People being smug online when someone dies is really offputing to me. Online spaces eradicate all the basic decency.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      6 days ago

      People have celebrated others’ deaths since walking forward was invented. For a long time, public executions were entertainment. While we moved from that, feeling satisfaction at the death of people we consider troublesome or worse is the norm.

    • richmondez@lemdro.id
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      7 days ago

      Isn’t that the whole point of things like the Darwin awards, pointing out when someone’s own flawed behaviour led to their demise when they could have easily avoided it by making better decisions?

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      7 days ago

      Sorry, but some people just endanger everyone else and I can’t feel very sorry if evolution eradicates them. And I’m all for protecting the dumb and weak.

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      People being smug is just offputting in general, IMO.

      While I kind of get it, since being smug can feel pretty good if you’re validated, but it’s something people could do less of.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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      7 days ago

      Same. It feels like the internet created a lot of borderline psychopaths.

      Or maybe it just revealed how many always existed.