Some people are born filthy vermin, regardless of circumstances. It has nothing to do with the "lack of happiness when someone dies".

There is even a Polish joke about Stalin's death :P I don't know if it's translatable, but polish fellas witll understand

Na co umarł Stalin?
Na szczęście (szczescie)

;-D

lukaszthegreat is right.

I so did not want to get into something like this today. I'm going to get out of this thread and stay out, let the fighting continue. If some group of assholes want to keep derepping for giving my opinion fine, I just jumped on someone for expreesing themselves so I guess I deserve it. What I would appreciate is when your done getting your jollies could you let it rest here and not follow me around hitting me for everything I post just because you think I was a dick this time? Thank you. :D

there are also many people who don't have fucked up life and do horrible things.

studies showed that its quite easy for people to stop being ethical. in certain circumstances they will lose any moral responsibility completely.
some cases are more likely than others.
doesn't change the fact that every 'monster' is a human being. I don't think you used that phrase correctly.

Is your view that black and white? We must either be jubilant that "the monster" is dead, or be saddened that he has passed? Never made any assumptions about where you stand on capital punishment.

just FYI. ive not downrepped you
(i don't think i've done that to anyone except spam)

Why? If one's definition of being different than animals means being ethical and having remorse, than someone with lack of them is not human.

Just because someone walks on two legs doesn't make him human.

Well, friend, the wait is over. What happens now ?
Some "superiority" this is, BTW... NOT applauding the death of someone. Go us. Perhaps soon we shall express our intellectual superiority over the ability to tie our own shoes...

Precisely: bad things happening to bad people don't stop being bad things.
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I'm not saying anyone should celebrate, false dichotomy lovers. I'm merely scared of how violent and cruel your thoughts are. All it takes is to convince you that someone is "baaaaaad" and suddenly you are willing to strip him from any sort of human dignity, doesn't it ? He's no longer "human", he no longer deserves to live, he no longer deserves no to suffer... This can be a dangerous road to follow. If you ever fail in society's eyes enough - you're screwed. If someone manipulates society into thinking that an innocent man is "no longer human" - he's screwed. If you keep fantasizing about suffering being "deservedly" inflicted on others... you might, just might, one day become the very monsters you fight.

Murder is wrong even if that means murdering(lethal injection) a murderer. By not killing him, the state of California wasn't stooping down to his level. And in my opinion, dying of natural causes makes you less famous. It's not the same as going out by getting surrounded by 1000 cops and getting shot like 100 times. Dying of natural causes is so average. Did King Leonidas die of natural causes? Did Harald Hardrada die of natural causes? Hitler?

Sick bastard that had a terrible childhood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez#Early_life

Calling them not human being gives the idea that they originate from somewhere else. That they were never part of human society and "species".

I don't like this line of thinking. A 'monster' hides in every person. every human can become 'not human' under certain circumstances.

If his cousin didn't come back from Vietnam. would that guy do everything he did? would he be human being then?

Just because you are a part of something, it doesn't mean you stay a part of it for eternity.

You legally stop being a human being after you die, you can also stop being a human being after you do something so unthinkable, so cruel, so ruthless, the humanity would definitely be better without you.

Just like you make some offence and you get kicked from your local chess club, you can be "kicked out" from humanity for your actions in my book.

It doesn't mean you can't go back. But he clearly didn't even want to come back.

There is a serial killer-pedophile just about to come out of prison in Poland. He said numerous times, he will kill another kid as soon as he goes out. He's not a human in my book, doesn't deserve a humanitarian treatement as well. Maybe it makes me not human as well.

What I know for sure, I won't be patronizing here and tell others they shouldn't feel good about somebody else's passing. Just because somebody breaths, it doesn't make him just as worthy of anything as others. I wouldn't dare to tell the families of the victims to not being joyful about his death.

The world is definitely a better place without him in my eyes.

It is common that such people have shit parents.

Exactly. I feel like they just overthink the whole process. If I had to guess I'd say it's more for the benefit of the society than the inmate, it lets people feel more civilized when deep down the result is really the same, they are still killing a man.

On topic: I don't like the idea of celebrating anyone's death. If you feel it was justified, fine, but afterwards don't derive happiness from something like this, do the mature thing and just move on.