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Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die"

On so many different news items, threads, etc. People are the first to claim pretty much anyone who has made a mistake, or does something they disagree with deserves to die.

Like, do some people not have the capability to empathise and realise they might have been in a similar place if they were born in a different environment…

I genuinely understand, you think a politician who has lead to countless deaths, a war criminal, or a mass rapists deserves to die.

But here people say it for stuff that falls way below the bar.

A contracted logger of a rainforest (who knows if they have the money / opportunity to support their family another way). Deserves to die.

A civilian of Nazi germany of whom we know nothing about their collaboration/agreement with the regime. Deserves to die.

Some person who was a drug dealer and then served their time. Deserves to die.

Like I don’t get it? Are people not able to imagine the kind of situations that create these people, and that it’s not impossible to imagine the large majority of people in these positions if born in a different environment?

xmunk , (edited )

Anonymity and group think are serious fucking drugs here - a lot of people struggle with empathy normally but even more fail to empathize across the internet. We’re all fucking people at the end of the day but some folks struggle to see other usernames as anything but “the other”.

Additionally this thread + comment system rewards extremism and controversy over reason and nuance - its much faster to absorb a comment of someone dunking on someone else than reading a well thought out of comment… the highest votes tend to go to shorter simpler statements.

Violence is inherently simple and easy to comprehend - it’s extreme and edgy - and it’s something a lot of us constantly see on these devices when playing video games. A lot of people who espouse it on the internet don’t mentally equate advocacy for violence with actual physical violence or can’t really comprehend what actual physical violence looks and feels like.

Oh, also, memes.

infinitevalence ,
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Its a product of global connectivity but lack of in person connection. If I interact with someone regularly and personally I am unlikely to wish harm on them because they are “part of my tribe.” Via the internet and social media I dont really have a connection with this person, so its easy to think of them as an outsider or them. Once they are outside of my tribe I can remove their humanity and then their death has no moral or emotional cost to me.

RightHandOfIkaros , (edited )

Hiding behind keyboard is easy.

Why should people be nice online when there are no tangible consequences to them being evil?

mecfs OP ,

Because it isn’t just “nice” not to kill people for these things. It’s what you’d expect that large majority of people to think.

xmunk ,

The majority of people probably do think that… but they don’t consider other internet denizens people.

mecfs OP , (edited )

Hard for me not to. I’m disabled to the point I’m unable to communicate in real life (lost ability to speak or hear), and am bedridden with limited mobility. So communicating via texting/phone is my only way.

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

anonymity allows people to be not very nice

thouartfrugal ,
@thouartfrugal@lemmy.world avatar
kent_eh ,

There’s a blast from the past.

inb4_FoundTheVegan ,
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

2004

There is a pretty decent chance I saw that on the day it was posted. I feel old. 😔

whyNotSquirrel ,
@whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works avatar

You’re not nice! I wish you were dead!

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

same

Lost_My_Mind , (edited )

Wait, you wish thouartfrugal were dead? Or you wish yourself were dead?

Phrasing left your statement vague.

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldnt wish death on someone else

Lost_My_Mind ,

That’s horribly unempathetic of you.

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

im sorry?

Lost_My_Mind ,

I just said how after a certain amount of time, people begin suffering if they live that long. We’ve never seen what happens if a person live to be 150 years old, but I assume it would be a level of suffering that people who are 105 haven’t even begun to experience, and never will.

You saying that people should live forever, just means they get about 90ish years of decent living, and then an eternity of suffering. I’m saying that everybody deserves to die.

breadsmasher ,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

I understand

Kalkaline ,
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

I’m so glad we’re all on the same page, does this mean we should be friends now?

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