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Well said. Some things are just in poor taste and better off not said.I was confused by this question at first, but then I read the thread. I think it’s callous and detrimental for the country’s civility to show pleasure at someone falling deathly ill. We saw this when John McCain was diagnosed, we saw it when John McCain died, we see it in stories about RBG, etc. All it does is make the country a bit nastier.
I understand that there are people who think Rush Limbaugh has damaged our society, maybe irreparably, by creating an industry out of political shock entertainment or whatever. I have literally never heard his show, so I don’t have much input on that. But I think that for the sake of civility, our society relies on certain norms in regards to death and sickness.
Think of how often you and I have been on the opposite side of an argument. Now imagine me laughing about you getting cancer because of it. A stunning lack of morality is always displayed on this site when someone we disagree with suffers.