05-22-2016, 05:56 PM
(05-22-2016, 04:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It was helpful to have one place to go to to see who has passed on, rather than a few different ones that would probably get lost in the crowd of threads and have to search through pages and pages of past threads for them.
A miscellaneous category that is not "light-hearted" would be good. Personally I am not interested in "lighthearted" stuff too much; it's mostly boring trivialities. Humor; maybe. But that can appear in any thread.
There's nothing light-hearted about death. Discussing "a teacher who set me on the right career path" would be in "What's happening with You?" In such we can leave tributes.
One poster castigated me for mocking the deaths of evil people (we are running out of Nazi war criminals, but there are still some nasty brutes from the Cambodian killing fields, the Rwanda genocide, Ba'athist gangsters, and of course the usual petty criminals and gangsters. I was allegedly dancing on graves. My sympathy is with innocent people and not with killers. I helped establish the Wikipedia policy of making the perpetrator subordinate to the criminal unless the criminal is notable for something other than crimes (like his case becoming an issue in itself) or doing so would be awkward, as with serial or mass killers. I do not want to leave a delinquent person the dubious achievement of getting a page in Wikipedia for committing a robbery-murder. Wrongly-convicted people are cleared because they are no longer guilty and their wrongful conviction and subsequent exoneration of horrific crimes constitute stories worthy of report.
Yes, I will take delight in the death of Charles Manson when such happens.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.