Would you be sad?

[Dimentio]

If you had a close relative who when you was five or six year-old used to lock you inside a room when they were babysitting you while your cousins (who were much more violent and speeded) were allowed to roam free, and when finally confronted about it defended it with racial reasons, would you be sad when they died of cancer several years later, when you are grown-up?

I am not kidding.

[NecroCommie]

No I would not. Family is not a value in itself. I respect my parents because they are reasonable and awesome, not because they are my parent. I too have relatives I do not respect at all. Perhaps for more trivial reasons, but nevertheless.

[Dimentio]

I know, but I think the death of any human being is a tragedy. That person has also had a huge impact on who I am.

[RedStarOverChina]

Explain "racial reasons".

[NecroCommie]

Personally? I don't even grief friends! I have a gothic philosophy of death! :D

Grief no more over friends who've died, that day will come to us all!
Until then we shall march with pride, raise our pints 'till the dawn.
-Turisas

Honestly, I don't want anyone to grief my eventual death, for the greatest freedom is the freedom from the fear of death. If I have lived to my fullest never holding back because of petty mortality, then my life and it's end is a thing of celebration!

[Adi Shankara]

If you had a close relative who when you was five or six year-old used to lock you inside a room when they were babysitting you while your cousins (who were much more violent and speeded) were allowed to roam free, and when finally confronted about it defended it with racial reasons, would you be sad when they died of cancer several years later, when you are grown-up?

I am not kidding.

I feel sad when just about anyone (save for certain classes of capitalists) die.

[Dimentio]

Explain "racial reasons".

She - or rather one of her stand-ins - motivated the reason that I was subjected to discrimination with the fact that I ain't an ethnic Swede. Could sound petty but that's how it was.

[RedStarOverChina]

She - or rather one of her stand-ins - motivated the reason that I was subjected to discrimination with the fact that I ain't an ethnic Swede. Could sound petty but that's how it was.
That wasn't a socially acceptable thing to say, even back then, was it? Are Swedish kids less likely to cause damage to furnitures because of their love of IKEA?

Obviously it has left a big impact on you and you'll be excused for not caring that she has died. Her being dead doesn't change the fact that she was an asshole. So long as you don't act too overjoyed, no one will blame you.

My philosophy has always been that, everyone dies and I should reserve my sadness and sympathy for people who are not complete assholes.

[Dr Mindbender]

i think in this circumstance id be pretty indifferent for the same philosophy as RSOC.

[Dimentio]

That wasn't a socially acceptable thing to say, even back then, was it? Are Swedish kids less likely to cause damage to furnitures because of their love of IKEA?

Obviously it has left a big impact on you and you'll be excused for not caring that she has died. Her being dead doesn't change the fact that she was an asshole. So long as you don't act too overjoyed, no one will blame you.

My philosophy has always been that, everyone dies and I should reserve my sadness and sympathy for people who are not complete assholes.

Actually, I am somewhat saddened.

Well, I think it was just a motivation. The real motivation was more family-related.

I was also exceptionally calm as a child. Just sat in a corner and painted images all day long.