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Jack Valenti, Dead at 85
saforrest writes "Jack Valenti, a man whose influence in both Washington and Hollywood was profound, died today at age 85. He first became famous as special assistant to Lyndon Johnson: he can even be seen in the famous photo aboard Air Force One. In 1966, he quit this job to become president of the MPAA, from 1966 to 2004."
What's wrong with celebrating the death of your enemy?
Honestly.
I don't understand.
Does the concept of death scare you so much that you don't like to think about it at all?
Do you think the gods will get angry at us and strike us down too?
Or is it that if you were an evil bastard who would sell his own grandmother for the right price, you would prefer people who abhore that behaviour to not celebrate your death?
How we know is more important than what we know.
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We don't have to celebrate his death... But I would certainly go to a party celebrating it if there was one to attend! Seriously, I would love to see a bunch of parties in really poor taste spring up all over the country this weekend. It'd be a nice way to let the people who want to follow in his footsteps know what we are willing to think of them. If anybody thows a Jack Valenti is Dead party in Boulder/Denver this weekend, be sure to email me.
At times like these, I wish there was a hell so people like Jack Valenti could be sent to it.
that someday I would piss on his grave. Someday I will keep it.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
I haven no points, or I would.
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It's funny how "free speech" advocates are silent when people silence speech that they disagree with.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Hope it was painful as hell.
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Thanks for ruining the ending of the movie, dickhead. Have you never heard of a ***SPOILER ALERT***?
Woo yeah, another money grubbing millionaire manipulistic thieving bastard is dead.
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If you want people who may have different values from you to share or even just understand your perspective, you need to at least be able to explain that perspective, not just list the rules you live by as though everyone should automatically recognize their absolute validity.
You've made categorical statements like "Common decency is..." and "you don't verbally dance on his grave...", and alluded to reasons ("There's a reason why...") without actually explaining those reasons. My conclusion is that like many people, you're following rules someone else made for you, which you take for granted but don't understand well enough to articulate. That's pretty common, but again, you shouldn't expect others to automatically accept those those rules unless you can at least verbalize their rationale.
(As an aside, you also draw some parallels which don't necessarily hold, e.g. that the taboo against actually desecrating graves should extend equally to discussing the idea in a way that's clearly not intended literally.)
As a reminder that there are people with different value systems from yours, read this comment. Do you think those people are "too detached from the real world to care about their human side", as you accused me of being?
You may not agree with those who are metaphorically dancing on Valenti's grave, but they're not forcing you to join them. You, on the other hand, seem to want them to follow the same rules you follow, and when they don't, or even when someone questions the reasons behind your rules, your response borders on questioning their very humanity.
In my value system, questioning the humanity of those with different values than you is a big no-no, which historically has led to all sorts of bad outcomes. You might want to ponder how your plea for decency turned into a step down such a dark, dark road.