Fuck that opinion.

Is celebrating the death of a human being mildly unpleasant? Sure. But is it more unpleasant than the 3-4 million deaths he caused? Fuck no.

Celebrate the death of an evil man. Go for it. And for the neo-Victorian scolds who want to say that it's bad to speak ill of the dead:

I'm not going to pretend he was a good person. The world is a better place with him gone.

If we cannot celebrate the death of an evil man, how will younger generations learn to avoid the mistakes of the past?

Pretending he never existed amounts to a coverup of his crimes.

I bet you would think different if his actions directly impacted you.

For my part, I agree. I don't celebrate death. I sure as hell ain't gonna mourn evil people, or pretend the world isn't objectively better off without them. I'm also not gonna lose any sleep over other people doing it. I'll happily celebrate any good things resulting from their death. But death itself isn't to be celebrated, not for me.

Congratulations, you actually posted an unpopular opinion.

I think the best comment in response is from @mawkishdave.

I bet you would think different if his actions directly impacted you.

That said, celebrating someone dying in the way that’s happening now shows disrespect to human life

The man in question disrespected human life his entire life. He is just receiving what he dished out.

He lived to 100. He died a powerful and rich man. It’s not like some incredible violence happened to him and everyone is celebrating his pain. It seems to me he lived his best possible life, from his perspective. I’m sure he died without regrets. He was a psychopath.

There’s nothing wrong with celebrating that this man is gone. I hope historians can illuminate his crimes. I hope we can collectively remember him as a villain, and accept his war crimes are something the USA is directly responsible for.

I regret that he was never tried at The Hague.

It's an opinion. I don't like it. It's in the correct community though.

We’re not rejoicing his death per se but rejoicing in a new world where the murderer of over 4 million no longer walks among us.

The man is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. You’re god damn right I’m going to cheer his own. I wish it was long and painful. I also wish he was locked up in “The Hague” when he died. Alone.

But I know you’re just looking for engagement because nobody would be THAT naive to not think he deserves death and so much more.

A truly unpopular opinion!

celebrating someone dying in the way that’s happening now shows disrespect to human life and an utter lack of humanity.

I disagree with this when applied to Kissenger. His actions directly contributed to millions of people unnecessarily dying. This is not an exaggeration.

He committed treason against his country by purposely sabotaging Vietnam peace talks. He did this to ingratiate himself to Nixon, not for any sort of higher reason.

His evil deeds are very much still fucking things up in the present day.

Kissenger was one of the worst monsters of the modern era.

To top it all off, he never received justice for any of his misdeeds. He was widely venerated and powerful until his death.

Evil people deserve to be hated.

Tolerance of intolerance (what you are doing here) is intolerance.

Intolerance of intolerance (what people expressing joy over Kissingers death) is tolerance.

Get off your fucking high horse, stop looking down your nose at actual good people, stop speaking up in defense of bad people.

Not that fucking hard to understand.

It’s weird how more and more people celebrate death because of this really extreme “us vs them” mentality that’s been developed.

I recall a lot of people were strangely happy when the people in that Titantic sub fucking died solely because the victims were rich people. Like… seriously? It was also weirdly morbid how people treated it like a spectacle with the Twitter account that was counting down the hours of air left.

I don't think people here are very receptive to what you are trying to say - fwiw I don't think what you want to convey can be taught in mere words, as it relates to people's underlying worldview with which they filter everything. But some of us get what you mean, no matter what words are chosen, and I want to say kudos for standing up for decency.:-)

Thank god he's dead, it fills me with warmth. I'm glad they sent him to superhell, alongside thatcher and reagan <3

Ha ha you're dead

https://youtu.be/55btGpGsuDo?si=dNJEcYKZG1zJVMXh

I guess to the point of your statement, that everyone is a combination of both good and bad. I am just genuinely curious, what good did Kissinger do?

Simple thought experiment. If you were alive during Hitler's death would you still feel the same way?

I don't like the idea of celebrating death because there's usually at least one person who is mourning and deserves to be respected in that. If people were celebrating the death of my loved one then yeah i'd feel pretty shitty about that.

But there is a certain category of person where this doesn't apply. If you're famous for doing war crimes then your death should be celebrated. It's less about the person and more about what they symbolise. If you use your existence to bring such suffering upon the world then humanity kind of has a duty to celebrate the loss of that existence from the world.

@LopensLeftArm I totally understand what you're saying. With most of these high profile deaths (Thatcher, for example) I would tend to agree with you.

But Kissinger was a mass murderer on an unimaginable scale.

Celebrating his death is like celebrating the eradication of malaria or smallpox. Even though life on earth is sacred, there are some living things that cause so much misery it's okay that they are extinguished.

The fact that he thrived, admired and celebrated, completely insulated from his crimes, cast a long shadow over us. To learn about Kissinger was to lose your innocence. For many of us, knowing he is dead makes the world feel brighter.

Lol, you respect human life? You must be very young or incredibly sheltered.

No, the man was a monster who's damage we are still dealing with.

We should be allowed to line up and shit in his grave.

In general I agree, but we're talking about a man who is directly responsible for the entirely needless deaths of hundreds of thousands (millions) and the ruining of untold tens of millions more. Nations like Cambodia are still feeling the effects to this day. I'm not sure where exactly the cutoff is where your death should be celebrated, but Kissinger bound far past it long, long ago.

That said, celebrating someone dying in the way that’s happening now shows disrespect to human life and an utter lack of humanity.

If he had been murdered, sure. But the fucker lived to be 100 years old and died peacefully, unlike countless other people's deaths that he was responsible for. Celebrating the peaceful death of a monster isn't anything to be upset about.

I understand the motivation, but it should be fought against by remembering that no one is ever just one thing, everyone is a mix of good and bad

Was Kissinger though? What good has he done, and is it even a fraction of the evil he has done?