It is so extremely disappointing to see people who never talked about the slaughter of the children,fathers,mothers and entire families in palestine

Continuously mourn, and openly scrutinize those who don't ,or even celebrate, the passing of an extremist with extremist rhetoric ,which includes justifying the genocide in Palestine and the unnecessary deaths of his own people through gun violence and the abolishment of reproductive health for women. I want to make very clear I do not celebrate his passing , but I certainly do not mourn it either . I do have a lot of judgement though for those who do and far worse for those who violently defend the honour of an honourless person. Go ahead and block me because your morals ,or lack thereof,do not align with me.

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My position is that I would feel revulsion at the public assassination of anyone, the exceptions being those who have committed horrific crimes. That's the position that I have made clear on here. I couldn't think much less of Donald Trump and yet I wouldn't have wanted to see his brains blown out if that assassination attempt had been successful. I am acutely aware that even those we cannot tolerate the opinions and ideas of still have families that love them.

I felt revulsion at the October 7th attack on Israel and I feel the same for Palestinians being decimated every single day. Anyone who would celebrate either of those events, or deny the tragedy of either, has lost their humanity. I wonder too why the huge amount of support for Palestinians did not extend to Syria and Yemen when they were being slaughtered and continue to be. There were protests but nothing like the level that we have seen for Palestine. For as much as the far right element in the nationalist protests in the UK is undeniable, the antisemitic element in the pro Palestine priests is also undeniable. I'm very sure that hate will not defeat hate.

I wish that we could all learn to meet bad behaviour with good behaviour instead of worse behaviour. That would be my ideal world. I don't expect anyone to mourn any particular individual, but those who derive joy from the death of people who they don't like, or whose rhetoric they don't like, are part of the problem in my opinion.