michael87cn said:
Holy crap does this thread make humans look like total scum. I don't know who Fred Phelps is, and what _I_ don't care about is what he's 'done'.
Yall might as well be pointing at a man that's on fire and shrugging your shoulders. I am not saying you should burst into tears, but to pretty much take pleasure in someones death is a very cold, evil thing to do. It really means you are probably worse than the person you think you're better than.
Did you know back after WWII that after japan surrendered, America had held a petition was to what to do with Japan since it was then disabled.
13% said that they should kill all japanese women,children and men, effectively wiping their race off the face of the earth, now 13% of all of america is still a lot of people.
Then there's the people from back then and now that were grateful in the Atomic bombings, the same for anything else in wars that have been and gone and yet you think hating one man who hates gays (practically doesn't want them to even exist)and spits on those that sacrifice their lives is scummy?, man you've got something to sort out in terms of priorities if you think that.
Ignoring this guy isn't going to do anything, he's written in the books and exists all over the place unlike the average human who hasn't cured cancer or gone to the moon or done something evil.
Saying to ignore him and be the better man is like saying that about nearly anything bad that's happened from one person in the entire history of mankind, that shit does not fly if we continue to hurt the "bad people".
The man hates gays to the ends of the earth and he's made them all well known about it, picketed funerals of people that gave their lives to protect them (pro tip funerals are once in everyones life, once they are ruined they leave a horrid mark forever), ignoring his funeral gives him and the family a complete and utter free pass, a pardon for all the horrible shit he and the family have caused countless others for years on end, to say we should give him the benefit and let his funeral be means we'll have to do that for every other horrid man or person out there and if not then be prepared to be called a total hypocrite.
This man does not deserve a peaceful funeral, I don't care about the "better man" speeches, those hold no ground other than a persons "oh you now suck in my eyes" moment, the guys done wrong and something has to be done, same happened with all the other bad people in history, he is no different, the being the better man in this instance does nothing for those that had their funerals ruined and their families shunned and shamed, absolutely nothing, it even shows lack of caring for them in the first place, hell saying "be the better man or you're equal to shit" is giving someone no choice at all, you throw them right into the corner in saying that, that's not how choices work.
