Note by @cookingsteak

Because I keep having to see it, on even this instance, I'm not going to be subtle here. I'm done seeing it and I'm done being silent and vague about it.

You are celebrating the death of a person. Yes, Kirk was a bad person. Yes, his actions hurt and killed other people. Yes, he derserved consequences for his actions. That is not up for debate. If you feel relief over this, then fine.

But I am not going to keep pretending that this growing trend of supposedly progressive, "good" people wishing the deaths of all the people who stand against them is fine, because the people they want dead are bad.

If you believe that the world would be a better place if all the bad people were murdered, you are taking on the same logic as antishippers, fascists, Nazis, etc. I don't know how people can't see this, especially those victimized by these groups. You are saying the same things, and that doesn't change because of who the target is.

You cannot be an advocate for human rights and believe that people deserve to die. You cannot be an advocate for human rights and believe they are conditional. This is how they get taken away from us.

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Let's think for a second what actually happens when figureheads like this die, assassinated. Do their supporters just stop if the person is dead? Do they back down and hide? No, they get bolder, they get louder, they find more solidarity. What was accomplished?

Human society cannot function if we have people deciding who gets to have human rights. This goes for everyone. Nobody should get to choose. They are supposed to be inalienable. When we do that, we are proving that we are no better than wild animals in a kill or be killed world. It's baffling and disgusting to me as someone who has to face discrimination and othering that those who purport to be better think like this.

I'm done. That's all.