Zangrief posted...
I think how a person is spoke of should not change simply because they have died. If they were an asshole, we shouldn't sugar coat it.
This, mostly. Though I wouldn't badmouth Roger Ailes specifically regardless, because I don't really give a fuck about him either way.
But the flip-side of that equation is, even if someone was a huge asshole while alive, they're still going to have family and friends who are mourning their loss, so effectively walking up and pointing and laughing at them and going "I'm glad he's dead!" is kind of a dick move, and it just sort of makes YOU the asshole.
Which, I suppose, means that the rest of us would then be obligated to shit-talk you once you're dead as well. And so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
So yeah, I can see why tact and human empathy would tend to discouraging speaking ill of the dead in a lot of cases depending on the circumstances, but I also don't think that simply dying magically erases all of your sins and leaves you immune to all criticism.
DarkKirby2500 posted...
I don't believe the dead care because they're dead.
To be fair, the practice of not speaking ill of the dead started at a time when most people believed the dead would come back and haunt your ass if you badmouthed them.
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