Lindsay Graham has just died, and I'm celebrating it, and I feel neither shame nor embarassmant about it. Every online forum and social media site, even Lemmy, has prohibitions on celebrating death, and I simply cannot understand why it is socially unacceptable. It's clearly a thought that many hold, yet we cannot express it. This is like a manifestation of Christian guilt, where as much as it is normal to do something, you still shouldn't do it. Wishing death on someone is considerably different than acting on it.

To me there is such an asymmetry in our culture to life and death. It is unequivocally acceptable to celebrate a new life being born, yet you have no idea what that life will turn out to be; that life could turn out to be the most reviled being. Celebration of life feels like a hopeful gamble. Yet, celebrating the death of verifiable evil is verboten, because it is "inhumane". I fail to see the inhumanity of it, and there is no speculation involved.

I'll see you at the pool party later.