[ganelonhb]

nobody really cares about whether or not you’re going to mourn for someone, but I think it shows the content of your character that you felt the need to share that you won’t be mourning him because XYZ. Nobody is perfect, and I wager to guess even the almighty You has a few things in your past you wouldn’t want people to remember about you if you died slowly and painfully very publicly.

Scott Adams said some really stupid, poorly thought out things about minorities and women, and he faced real world consequences for his actions. But he also died slowly and painfully of cancer, and he died crying out for help very publicly. That’s objectively very sad, and if you should ever share the same fate I truly and genuinely hope your loved ones are there and with you, and choose to forgive you of any of your perceived sins.

[spankalee]

I hope that people remember me for exactly who I was, especially if I'm ever as terrible as Scott Adams was.

[nullhole]

> he also died slowly and painfully of cancer

I guess he got the death that he wished, personally and seriously, upon some large fraction of the Earth's population

  I don't want anyone to misconstrue this post as satire or exaggeration. So I'll reiterate. If you have acted, or plan to act, in a way that keeps doctor-assisted suicide illegal, I see you as an accomplice in torturing my father, and perhaps me as well someday. I want you to die a painful death, and soon. And I'd be happy to tell you the same thing to your face.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003037/http://dilbert.co...

[flykespice]

I'm not obliged to mourn someone that spread hatred against the group of people I belonged to, even moreso when they didn't show any regret about their words at the end of their lifetimes

[carlosjobim]

Look at the entirety of this thread. You are trying to reason with reptiles. The more you try to appeal to their humanity or decency, the harder they will double down on their psychotic behaviour.

René Girard explained this mechanism in his mimetic theory and the scapegoat mechanism. People here on hacker news are generally not fully formed human beings, and they instinctively believe that the more they group together in hate against different individuals, the more they will personally benefit. You see it here in every thread, no matter what subject.

[dennis_jeeves2]

>Scott Adams said some really stupid, poorly thought out things about minorities and women, and he faced real world consequences for his actions

Or may be he did know that there would be consequences? Many people who are financially secure do make provocative statements. I think he did many of us a favor, because many of us still have to earn a living and cannot speak out.

[spankalee]

Wait, so you would personally say things like "Black people are a hate group", except that you need to stay employed?

That is exactly what I mean about making bigotry shameful again. You should worry about losing your job, and your friends and family, for that.

If you stay quiet about your hateful views, then others are more likely too, and maybe some day we can eventually, slowly, move past all of you.