Osama Bin Laden is dead and it's funny

Some of his relatives were able to see that he was a bad person, and they disowned him. If I had a relative that was a major criminal, I hope that I would have enough sense to understand that he didn't deserve any kind of special treatment that other similar criminals don't get. I don't know for sure, since I haven't been in that situation.

Interesting choice to use for an example. Morally, I don't think that Cheney is a better person than OBL, and I wouldn't be upset if something bad happened to him. If people in the middle east were happy about his death, I would think that they have a right to their own opinions.

That's not the same as celebrating the death of a group, such as the 2500+ from the World Trade Center or the Jews of the Holocaust. You can't possibly know anything specific about all the individuals in a group that large, so there's no way you can have an informed opinion about what they all deserve or didn't deserve. There's no way you can ever get 2500 people rounded up in one place where each and every one of them is a terrible person, harmful to the world in general. The death of a large group is always a tragedy, because there are always individuals involved who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I think every person is born with basic human rights, but there are things you can do to flush most of those rights down the toilet. After that, you deserve whatever you get.

 

Dude they found his "extensive" porn collection. What isn't funny about that?!

 

.. =):sultan: lol.

 

Hey I recognize those legs...

 

They are not mine... but I could pull it off ,,,,, ,anyone got a drape?..

 

that's what i was going to say. i think after a few days of forced respectfulness, there would probably be a couple weeks of dead cheney jokes all over the media.

"cheney was shot in the face by the taliban? don't worry folks, it was self-defense. they were hunting together."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34"]YouTube - Rimshot

 

The guys you're talking about are not funny, and that's the problem.

Osama being dead sounds like fine joke material to me.

It's never "too soon" with his type.

 

"Pull it off" the mind could run so many directions with such a statement

 

i could pull it off, but conspiracy theorist would say it was "an inside job".. :2thumbsup:

 

I started to say I wouldn't touch that line either but then again I might find that I could handle it.

 

I agree with the op, lunar

 

ughhhhhhh exactly. sometimes we need to be serious and stop trying to see the humor in things. there is no humor in the murder of any human being!

 

This was all over the news yesterday. Seems like a detail the public doesn't need to know. I can't see how it is relevant to the crimes he commited against the United States and other countries. Unless of course he was jerking off to pictures of 747s and and skyscrapers.

 

The thing I find most disturbing about everyone making light of his death is it came at such a high cost. Its not like America found him 2 weeks after 9/11 and killed him with little to no human casuality. He was killed 10 years later after fighting two wars, losing thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of civilian casualities.

Life can be pretty heavy and life really sucks if you can't make light of it and find the humor in everything, but I think in this case all of those making jokes would do well to remember that when making a joke about one man, they're also joking about everything else that happened as a result of that one man.

His death deserves somber reflection, not laughter.

 

Not true at all.

 

And you explain your point so clearly.

 

They're using to show that he was a bad muslim

 

He already proved he was a bad Muslim by perverting his religion into a excuse for murder. His death is just the end of another chapter in the depravity organized religion inflicts on mankind.

 

I haven't heard one reporter say that he was a bad muslim. I haven't heard one person use the material to make any sort of commentary on him personally other than to reveal the fact that they found pornography on his computer.

 

neither have I

its just common knowledge about the pornography/muslim taboo