"Osama bin laden is dead. So is a woman who was killed in the firefight, taken by Bin laden's people as a human shield. I want to know her name, I want the whole world to know her name, so at any point we think we can celebrate a death, we're reminded that no matter how much we justify it, the inevitable consequence of violence is sadness, pain, misery and loss."
- Van Badham.
I don't know if celebrating the death of a human being is more ethically wrong or right (given his crime) but watching the millions of lines of writing bursting their outlines with a source of triumph, of justification, of righteousness and happiness, all over the internet...makes me so uncomfortable. Of course his murder and it is a murder, doesn't even nearly account for the lives lost but can we really celebrate death? As a symbolic gesture perhaps, but what are millions of Americans celebrating? That war will continue? Haven't all these deaths taught us a life for a life is wrong? Who can see the victory between all that blood and death? His death means nothing and will change nothing. Oh(eyes and ears and mouth and)nose :'(
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