Sure, and I can be relieved too when specific people, who cause great suffering, die and therefore stop.
Relief is a different thing than taking great satisfaction in it. It's not schadenfraude I feel about their death: it's relief about having one less thing to worry about, not relief at finally getting my vengeance.
I don't think so. For example, when a family member's biopsy comes back clear, I feel relief but not satisfaction.
I wonder if seen in brain chemistry and vital signs these emotions exhibit differently. I'd guess they would.
“Better” is always subjective, so this is false.
> The issue of course is who gets to decide that
This is an issue exactly because better is always subjective.
From a more practical perspective, we can all agree that there are more and less desirable states of human life, and that is the context where the term "objectively" is used in common parlance.
I reject your nihilism and substitute my subjective values as a superior model.
Maybe, but value is subjective even when you zoom in.
> I reject your nihilism and substitute my subjective values as a superior model.
I never expressed nihilism, I stated that values are subjective, and describing them as objective is incorrect and obscures the source of the practical problem you yourself described with implementing them.
There is no pink, only salmon. Got it.
Correct, they should not.
Where the statement without “objective” is uncontroversial and the discussion touches on nothing else to which objectivity vs. subjectivity is important, it adds nothing but pointless inaccuracy, when the claim is controversial or offered in a context where objectivity vs subjectivity actually matters in some other way, it is harmfully misleading.
There's nothing "objective" about this at all--this is an extremely Western/US-centric view of the world. Most of China does not consider Xi Jinping an evil person who the world would objectively be better off without.
I'm not sure we have any data on this either way. Most of China doesn't feel like they have the freedom to say anything negative about Xi in any sort of public or recorded way so taking a poll on Xi in China isn't likely to give you a true picture of how people there actually feel about him.
If Xi is pure evil, you should be worried about how much investment American companies are receiving from evil CCP-affiliated entities, as well as how much money gets America is spending on evil CCP-sponsored manufacturing...
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-vi...
There are some people the world is objectively better off without. The issue of course is who gets to decide that, and under what circumstances. But there's no denying that violence, properly applied, can solve many problems very efficiently.
I was quite relieved when Rush Limbaugh died, for example. I will feel a great deal of relief when Putin and Xi eventually kick the bucket. I feel no need to piss on their graves, but only because I have better things to do.