I mean, that's fine. No one said you had to feel sympathy.
I'm arguing against people saying they either *should* die or they feel happy about it.
Maybe we agree.
Feelings are feelings, though, and they naturally happen to us as human minds, so I don't necessarily think that all of the people happy that antivaxxers are dying should be reprimanded for being honest that they themselves are feeling natural relief when one of these
bioterrorists go down.
I just think that it should end there. Feel empathy, feel disappointment, feel relief if you
need to, but don't unnecessarily spread hate, violence, or cruelty to people. That, in contrast, can easily be argued as ethically ineffective and immoral.
Obviously, no one deserves to
die for ignorance and mistakes, especially if there's remorse; if you are progressive and agree that the death penalty is unnecessarily cruel and indignant to human life, the belief in these should be congruent.
But feeling the instinct of relief when one dies because of their terrible actions that hurt others? I don't judge people for that. I do criticize thoughts and actions though, as those can be controlled in response to emotions we naturally have.
I guess that's where I'm landing on this issue right now.
It makes me smile whenever I read about one dying.
At the end of the day, you can't reason with them. The only solution to their idiocy is a huge number of them dying. Every time it happens the needle shifts just the teeniest bit back towards rationality. It's the only way forward.
Yo, even if the only way we get past this crisis is that all the antivaxxers die of COVID, these are NOT the kinds of thoughts you should allow yourself to type out or think out loud. Control yourself and your ethics, please.