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Death The Human Rebellion: Woman Arrested for Exploiting the Newtown Dead
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:18 PM
NBC:
The FBI has arrested a woman suspected of lying about her connection to a victim of the Newtown school shooting earlier this month to collect donations from charitable citizens looking for a way to contribute in the wake of the massacre.The emotion we express at this kind of thing, this kind of lowness (how low can you go?), is disgust—a human social emotion that has its roots in the tongue. But what this woman did is in reality no different from what life does all of the time. This is how it works. This is how it's been for billions of years. Anything dead can be reabsorbed into the uncountable processes of living matter. Life is only about life. Life does not care a hoot about death. Yet we humans are disgusted by this very fact of life when it appears in its social form. The natural reaction we have to putrid things is the emotion we express to people who exploit our kindness, our suffering, our pain. We have indeed rebelled against life. This is a part of being human. This is our sociality.
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What a piece of human waste. I am disgusted by this. I don't care about your philosophical musings on it. I hope she gets jail time and I hope they beat the living hell out of her every single day.
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Good God Chuck,
I so very much hope that you will be "reabsorbed into the uncountable processes" as soon as possible.
I so very much hope that you will be "reabsorbed into the uncountable processes" as soon as possible.
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@3 "What a piece of human waste"
You don't have to care about the philosophical musings, since you exemplify them without realizing.
You don't have to care about the philosophical musings, since you exemplify them without realizing.
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My god. Exploiting these murdered children. How unconscionable. How do these people sleep at night?
Now lets hurry up and ram through some gun control legislation while people are still upset, panicky, and outraged over this attack.
Now lets hurry up and ram through some gun control legislation while people are still upset, panicky, and outraged over this attack.
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It's disgusting, but compare to Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz, Feith, et al. who killed hundreds of thousands and drained $Trillions out of the budget in a fraudulent war or two.
Or compare to Walmart and the industry of death selling guns & ammo at record volumes based on fluffed up gun-nut paranoia. This creepy woman is minor-league.
Or compare to Walmart and the industry of death selling guns & ammo at record volumes based on fluffed up gun-nut paranoia. This creepy woman is minor-league.
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I agree that this is dipicable and loathsome, but i dont see your correlation. How does someone using human emotion for monitary gain equate in anyway to life consuming death?
Wouldnt justice and sane reaction be a better corollary?
Wouldnt justice and sane reaction be a better corollary?
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POSEUR ALERT POSEUR ALERT POSEUR ALERT POSEUR ALERT
My god, there are Sonic the Hedgehog romance stories on fanfiction.net more insightful and better written than this. This is idiotic, embarrassing drivel, and how this man continues to be employed as a professional writer is beyond comprehension. Has Mudede ever interacted with a human being in his life?
My god, there are Sonic the Hedgehog romance stories on fanfiction.net more insightful and better written than this. This is idiotic, embarrassing drivel, and how this man continues to be employed as a professional writer is beyond comprehension. Has Mudede ever interacted with a human being in his life?
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Kind of like the Catholic church telling everyone they were going to hell, but allowing people to give donations in order to get their relatives out.
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@6 I am upset, outraged, but definitely not 'panicky'. I am a gun owner but I look forward to sensible gun rights / control legislation being passed. Some very good ideas have burbled up on Slog recently (your panicky rantings notwithstanding).
I also look forward to better mental health care forthcoming, even though the Republicans hate, hate, HATE these sort of social programs. Fuck 'em, it is time to undo the wrongs of the prior generation.
I also look forward to better mental health care forthcoming, even though the Republicans hate, hate, HATE these sort of social programs. Fuck 'em, it is time to undo the wrongs of the prior generation.
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I'm not surprised at all by this. It happens with every tragedy. How many scams were there for the Haiti earthquake or the 2004 tsunami? Scammers scam. It's a law of humanity.
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The problem here isn't that a dead child was fed upon by someone living, the problem is that the feeder had no right to be eating this particular corpse. She was stealing someone else's dead baby, and our sociality requires us to punish her for her antisocial cheating.
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Human emotion and morality isn't a rebellion against life. We're not the only animals that do it, for one. There a lot of behavioral ways to survive as individuals and as a species. I for one would prefer to live among a society of animals that uses empathy, kindness, and respect where possible. I can admit that's not 100% of the time.
I think this sample of your philosophical musings is one-dimensional. It's a bad analogy. It also kinda strikes me as one of those naturalistic fallacies. I hate those. Ever hear somebody use "this is how nature is and you are rebelling against it" in their gay-bashing?
I think this sample of your philosophical musings is one-dimensional. It's a bad analogy. It also kinda strikes me as one of those naturalistic fallacies. I hate those. Ever hear somebody use "this is how nature is and you are rebelling against it" in their gay-bashing?
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