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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by loriverkutya on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:29AM (#29186154)
>Even if you despise the person, their death has caused real human suffering and pain among those around and associated to them.

Generally the victims of a serial abuser are usually experienced the suffering and the pain while the abuser was alive and their death is a relief. (firsthand experience)

I really don't understand of this speak ill if the dead thing, where is the limit, am I allowed to speak ill of Stalin or Hitler or the other mass murderer assholes. If you were an abuser and you die, we should not mention that you were making life miserable people around you or what?

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by dash2 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:12AM (#29186384)
Most humans are imperfect. Some guy once said something about casting the first stone. A more recent guy pointed out that analogies with Stalin and Hitler are usually not illuminating.
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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by Kye on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:09AM (#29187956)
"Imperfect" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I don't know what the reference to a character in a book is doing there. Godwin of Godwin's Law fame said you could compare people to Hitler.
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