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by notreallyserio 1663 days ago
I don't "celebrate" their deaths, but when someone uses a position of authority to endanger others by discouraging basic measures like getting vaccines and staying 6+ feet apart, or by claiming the disease is a librul plot, and then dies of the disease, I can't help but feel some schadenfreude.

I still feel bad for their families. Not only did they lose a loved one, they learned the relative value their loved one placed on their lives. That is tragic.

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That does not sound very convincing. I think "Schadenfreude" in this case is an expression of an inferiority complex to be honest. Your pathos for victims doesn't seem to be genuine, it sounds like a pretext to be able to blame others, preferably along some partisan lines.

I am vaccinated but I don't believe unvaccinated people endanger me or other unvaccinated people, nor that we should mandate vaccination, especially not for young people. I assume that sooner or later we will have a conflict, it is fairly predictable.