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  • I think the conflict only comes if you are a person who feels empathy. His positions are irrelevant in the face of a human body suffering a miserable catastrophe.

    The fact that he was a douchebag doesn’t change the fact that a body had its neck exploded, and that probably hurt and was frightening. These are experiences. If you have empathy then you have a sort-of mirror- experience. It doesn’t become joy just because he sucked as a person. That’s sadism, to enjoy another body’s misery.

    Edit: you can appreciate the irony one moment, while at another moment empathize viscerally with the miserable experience. Then later even sadistically enjoy the suffering of “an enemy” (but be honest that it’s sadism).

    If you feel nothing it’s partly because he’s “an enemy” and he’s dehumanized to some of us apes, but also the big media spectacle and all the hot takes overwhelm and override what you might otherwise feel.