What is your reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden?

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you think you can sit on the sidelines and cheer another's death.
when you your self have have contributed nothing but the heat of your baited breath.

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Here is me playing the worlds smallest violin for bin laden........perhaps if you saw 9/11 first hand like we did in new jersey and new york you would understand....the man killed husbands, wives, tore families apart....excuse me while I don't cry over bin ladens death as some " humanitarians" want us too....

i can not see any link in that sentence so i can not assess your performance on the microviolin.




i did see it as it was happening. i was woken up for some strange reason and the TV was still on, and i saw the north tower collapse. i dreamily thought "that is very advanced graphics". and i became exponentially more interested, and after a few seconds i realized that it was real.

the buildings are no longer there now because of him. but to shoot him through the head and remove his life from his possession is something i find to be unpleasant. is 3000 lives worth 3000 times more than one life? i do not know. if every life is infinitely valuable, then it is is impossible to add up their value( because you can not add to infinity). if one life has infinite value, then it is equal to slaughtering the universe to remove it from existence.

but on the bright side, the saturation on the news about that story is tapering off, and hopefully it will return to normal soon.

Exactly, I find it absolutely ridiculous. Yeah if someone's done a serious crime then serious punishments are carried out but there's no need for people to be so joyous about it.

Why? Why can't people be joyous? A man who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, the brutalization of woman, a man whose idealogy is racist to its core is dead now..someone who used his wealth to exploit and ruin other peoples lives is no longer on the face of this planet. I for one AM joyous.

Meh, I'm indifferent to most deaths (as in those of people I don't know) and that includes this one. But I still think the loss of life in general is a negative thing, because I imagine being confronted by a firing squad and it disturbs me.

I disagree wholeheartely...some people are so evil, so destructive, and btw bin laden made sure all of us knew it, that his removal from this planet is a good riddance. I live in new jersey...not far from lower manhattan..I remember 9/11 very clearly. So many people here lost their lives that day..families ripped apart...this man lived in comfort in Pakistan for who knows how long. He gets absolutely no sympathy from me....he is lucky to have been given a proper burial considering he never afforded his victims one.

Noooo, I don't have sympathy for him, god no! Never said that, the punishment was fair and all. But because I don't know him personally or have never been directly affected by his crimes, I don't feel any kind of strong emotion towards his being shot.

Than perhaps you would understand why those affected by his crimes here in the United States cheered and are in a joyous mood now that he is dead. I see your 18, so you were 8 at the time of the attacks and you live in england...your detached from the event(s)...I remember that day crystal clear. I could smell the jet fuel in the air.

Be fair now. Some of bin Laden's boys blew up parts of the London Underground.

ruveyn

Personnel are also trained to go for the double-tap (squeeze the trigger twice in rapid succession) when they shoot. Apparently, the first round took him in the chest, and the second round (due to recoil) hit his head. (For those who've never actually fired a gun - when the bullet comes out, Newton's Second Law of Motion says the gun moves too. Since you're holding on to it, it tends to pull upward. Yes, that means all those Schwarzenegger movies with him firing an M-16 on full auto from his hip one-handed were full of - er - action.)

As for the conspiracy theories, there's one simple question: why? Why would anyone bother to fake killing bin Laden? If he were still alive, as I've pointed out, we'd have heard from him by now; if he had been dead, surely simply saying "we found his body" would have been more than sufficient. What purpose could possibly be served by faking something, then announcing it so very publicly? There is no detectable upside to such a maneuver, and the downside if it's discovered is enormous.

I feel indifferent...well...more like apathetic only because if people make too much of a big massive deal out of something then I clam up and lose any ability to care or have any interest about the situation one way or another, whether it's Obama becoming president or OBL being killed.

If anything OBL's death should be a cause for concern. Just because on major terrorist is dead doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about others. Especially if said terrorists belong to one massive and religiously-motivated organization.

But so far, with the possible exception of that American of Yemeni descent making trouble on the internet, nobody is charismatic enough to replace Bin Laden. So, even if he was just a figure head as some think, this is still a major loss for Middle Eastern terror as nobody else has the power of inspiration that he had over the divergent groups of terrorists.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

- Martin Luther King, Jr

Something like that.

I certainly wasn't surprised at how many people around me and on the news etc. were celebrating death, I'm used to religious or slightly religious people celebrating deaths, looking forward to their own deaths, believing they have some splendid fantastical metaphysical dream world to look forward to for all eternity. People used to freak me out by cheering for death but I think I've become quite desensitized to it at this point and if it brings them comfort and that's what they need to deal with daily life, more power to them.

My boyfriend was really relieved about it. Osama's first bombing was in Saudi Arabia and it almost killed my boyfriend's father. In 1995, so I guess my boyfriend and his dad have been waiting longer than ten years. And his dad still works in Saudi Arabia so... I don't know. I guess he feels he has more reason to be concerned than the average American.

I'd have a much easier time controlling my euphoria if I didn't remember how happy so many people we're abroad when 9/11 happened. I mean 3000 people die, and they cheer; when one highly culpable individual dies, we cheer.