What to do when an even worse person dies

What to do when an even worse person dies

Well, I didn't expect this post to be so relevant again so soon, but I'll try to keep this brief.

What do you do when a person who spent his entire existence not only fomenting violence and the elimination of entire groups of people, but becoming rich off of it, dies as a result of the very violence he advocated for?

Well, you can live your life, for one thing. Violence is bad. Murder is bad. Those things are so evident and apparent and obvious that it is insulting to you, to me, and to everyone aware of the concept of violence to actually say it.

Should you hand-wring over the senseless loss of life for a person who gladly would have pushed a button and had all trans people similarly executed? You should not.

Should you fly a flag at half-mast for a person whose entire public life was devoted to the eradication of any voice or viewpoint that was contrary to his? You should not.

Should you spare a moment of sympathy for his wife and child, about whom he has gone on record as saying that he would gladly submit both to untold agony based on his particular worldview should tragedy befall them and yet chose to remain affixed to him and profiting off the horrible words he said, many times over, for years? You should not!

Should you perhaps consider that "political violence" is inseparable from "politics," and that violence is a tool wielded with aplomb and glee by anyone lucky enough to be able to get their hands around it? You probably should!

Reaping leads to sowing. There is no reason to plant a single tear for a reprehensible human being, no matter how they met their end.