I suspect gratuitous "grave dancing" is indicative of precisely those characteristics of personality that tend to result in great suffering.
Unless a death is the proximate cause of the cessation of great harm, I cannot understand the impulse to celebrate: http://freethoughtblogs.com/iris/2017/05/18/well-this-certainly-cheered-me-up-roger-ailes-has-died/ …
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Of course, one must not discount the performative edginess of this sort of thing. It is important to appear radical for all the cool kids!
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Can you understand the impulse to be saddened by the death of a famous person you never knew personally but whose work you admired?
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If that person was no longer actively creating new works, their death is no proximate cause for cessation of benefits derived from them.
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I don't see how the two situations differ. They seem to be exact mirror images of each other.
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The two situations differ because being saddened by a death is *not* the same as celebrating a death. Morally, emotionally, different.
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Mirror images, as I said. Mutatis mutandis. Sadness and joy are symmetrical feelings, aren't they?
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Rationally, it doesn't make sense that many people felt sad when Harper Lee died. But it's a pretty normal human reaction.
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Right. But joy/sadness at a person's death or suffering (regardless of whether we know them), aren't *morally* equivalent.
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That's not obvious. Let's go halfway: are sadness and indifference to a person's death morally equivalent? But we are indifferent to most.
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Yep. I have zero patience for grave dancing
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Not a great look.
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He caused great harm in his life and symbolised a lot of bad things. That his death is rejoiced may be good, as rejoicing is fun.
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