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Originally posted by ItsAlive75
And to be honest, you people wouldn't even fuckin' know about this if he wasn't a "celebrity". What if it was just some regular dude you read about it happening to in the newspaper? Would we have a RIP thread? No way, we'd have it in True Crime and we'd all be making fun of it.
Gimme a break.
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There's a difference between a celebrity and a public icon. Take Jane Goodall for example. She, while not having her own tv shows, is on the same line. She is an environmentalist and a conservationalist. She perfers to work with chimps. When she dies, I'll definitely feel as deep a loss, because of the way that I feel about the evironment. I know you hate him, but Bono, who just happens to actually
be a celebrity is also another one.
It's not the person, per-se, it's the work that they do and the message that they send. So if someone who dedicates their life to making the planet a more beautiful place by understanding nature or arousing the compassion of human beings for other human beings, fuckin-a yeah, I'm going to say that we've lost a good person.
But that wasn't my point...
My point was that everybody who had posted up until... had posted their remorse. Don't you think it was a little out of place, a little disrepectful to everyone in the thread to interject a random blurb of nastiness into a thread of people showing sorrow for someone they respected? I know that we do shit like that here all of the time, but there's something about mourning a person's passing that makes it a little more personal and leaves less room for being disrespectful.
My other point was, no, I don't expect anyone to mourn or even care about the loss of someon they don't know personally. However, I would have thought that you would have had the smarts to say to yourself, "Maybe I shouldn't say that at this point, because it seems that people are really affected by this."