re: #470 spocomptonite

To be fair, I’m all for bin Laden being killed, but I too find it a bit inappropriate to be partying in the streets about it. Someone just died, and no matter how evil you/I/we think he is, we shouldn’t celebrate it. It just reminds me of the people who danced in the street on 9/11 because they thought we were evil. And we’re not them. And we shouldn’t act like them.

To be fair there’s a difference between celebrating the murder of civilians and celebrating the murder of an enemy leader who has taken up arms against you, even if it was done via a sneak attack.

There is a lot of difference in fact.

So to try and draw a direct comparison between one and the other is a grave mistake in my ipnion.