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Originally Posted by Halx
I never understood the idea of "class" ... since when was one under duty to respect another person for simply having lived and died. The man was bad and deserves no kind words.
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I didn't actually offer any kind words. But I don't see a point in the ruthlessly unkind words. They reveal just as much about Falwell as more civil appraisals and they betray an undignified hatred on the part of the speaker.
The man's dead. His work - the good and the bad and the bad - is at an end. He can't hear you. Your vitriolic attacks can only be felt by his surviving loved ones. He's irrelevant, as now are the attacks against them. Save them for the living, breathing, actually presently harmful evangelists out there. Otherwise, they just come off as petty graspings for the last word.
Yeah, I know, Falwell did the same thing, yeah, I know, it's only fitting.
Forgive me if I don't look to Falwell for a moral benchmark.