To oblige you, here's your chance to downvote me again. :) I agree this shouldn't be here at all. But, given that it's here, we should say what's true about it, instead of letting the conventional wisdom be all thats heard. I thought divergent thinking about conventional wisdom is part of the whole hacker thing?
I don't think not being sad about his death and keeping the harm he did in perspective is anathema to humanity. I believe the things and people he was part of enabling are anathema to humanity. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq dead or maimed because of the way the mainstream media (which he was a leader of) protected and enabled the people who were lying in the run up to war. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people dead or maimed, thousands of American soldiers killed, tens of thousands more maimed or with PTSD or suicide risks, thousands of foreigners tortured under the US flag. Thats the anathema to humanity, and the people Russert was instrumental in enabling caused it. I don't think we should care too much if he brought infectious joy to his work in judging his life.
What you are saying is basically "I was entertained by the way he was part of lying to me on the TeeVee, so he deserves better after he's dead." No. He got way better then he deserved. The ones who deserve better are the people still being tortured and that are dead or damaged for life that are consequences of the deception ho was part of. It should be how dirty these things are that make you want to shower, not me pointing them out.
I don't think not being sad about his death and keeping the harm he did in perspective is anathema to humanity. I believe the things and people he was part of enabling are anathema to humanity. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq dead or maimed because of the way the mainstream media (which he was a leader of) protected and enabled the people who were lying in the run up to war. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people dead or maimed, thousands of American soldiers killed, tens of thousands more maimed or with PTSD or suicide risks, thousands of foreigners tortured under the US flag. Thats the anathema to humanity, and the people Russert was instrumental in enabling caused it. I don't think we should care too much if he brought infectious joy to his work in judging his life.
What you are saying is basically "I was entertained by the way he was part of lying to me on the TeeVee, so he deserves better after he's dead." No. He got way better then he deserved. The ones who deserve better are the people still being tortured and that are dead or damaged for life that are consequences of the deception ho was part of. It should be how dirty these things are that make you want to shower, not me pointing them out.