Whatever happened to, "Never speak ill of the Dead"?

[Sim Kid]

Okay so as you know, Steve Jobs died yesterday of Pancreatic Cancer. On boards everywhere and Twitter I saw all sorts of ****ty comments and other such bad stuff. Among these comments I saw were stuff like "Ding dong the witch is dead", making hate sites celebrating his death, etc. I even saw idiotic tweets saying "The world is a better place now. It would have been if he never existed" (Apparently they don't like pixar) or "lol Apple doesn't have virus protection."


For the record, I was just as disgusted that people were saying this about Michael Jackson awhile ago, or seeing people saying "Ding Dong the witch is dead" about Jade Goody in the UK.

[Jere]

i'm with you on this, I think it's really bad taste to do this just now when he have died.

He's a human being for heavens sake show some respect at least.

Then im more in favor of the people that goes and have fun with it, like this picture i found just now



and like this.

[Ace Mercury]

Yeah, people on the internet are jerks. They're tribal and they're quick to create symbols revolving around charismatic characters. They rejoice then their symbols win and when other's symbols lose.

[Apiary Tazy]

People are asses.

[Booyakasha]

I think it's okay to speak ill of the dead in certain instances. Like, if the dead in question was an irredeemable dirty bastard---sometimes there's an awful fuzzy line between 'speaking ill' and 'speaking honestly'.

Granted, that isn't usually the case, and it isn't the case in this instance.

[Kargath]

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[LOOT]

inb4 Godwin's law

[DarkZero]

Just for the record, these kinds of people have been around since the beginning of time. It's just that now the internet makes them easier to find.

[Maximum Spider]

This is why I don't have a Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter.

[1-up Salesman]

I think it's okay to speak ill of the dead in certain instances. Like, if the dead in question was an irredeemable dirty bastard---sometimes there's an awful fuzzy line between 'speaking ill' and 'speaking honestly'.

Granted, that isn't usually the case, and it isn't the case in this instance.

Exactly. Don't ever tell me to respect Hitler. :)

[Booyakasha]

I wasn't going to before, but now I kind of want to do exactly that.

Hitler---a bad man, but a snappy dresser. Probably had an okay singing voice, too (not that you'd know it, unless you caught him at Beer Hall Putsch/Karaoke Night).

[SephirothKirby]

Hitler wasn't that bad. He killed Hitler.

[1-up Salesman]

SHADDUP

[Random User]

Well, not that I like or condone any of what Hitler did - he was horrible. But I respect how he was able to rise to power and turn one of the poorest countries into an empire.

[X-3]

I respect how he was able to forever ruin the toothbrush mustache style.

[LOOT]

I heard that Pol Pot dude was a jerk.

[1-up Salesman]

What about Ganondorf?

[DarkZero]

Hitler wasn't that bad. He killed Hitler.

I need to have this quote framed somehow.