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Yeah I'm not really interested in the politics side and I think the death penalty has a lot more variables. Religion is it's own can of worms for sure.
It was more of a kind moral question I stumbled into when thinking about it. If there were such a person that was a "bad person" and they did a good act resulting in their death, is that a net good for society and is it right to cheer it on. I think it is a net good, but cheering at death just seems hard to justify.
He was a volunteer firefighter. I reckon he was benefit to society. I wouldn't cheer a death lightly.
Another thing is, people can be indoctrinated/misled into supporting Trump. I find a lot of passive supporters or believers in conspiracy theories seem to be moreso victims. Trump can pay lip service to Corey, but we all know that deep down, he is glad it was Corey and not him. Another case is Ashli Babbitt. I think it's a tragedy that she was misled, groomed and indoctrinated into storming the United States parliament building, but her shooting was still justified. She was part of a mob that was going after Mike Pence. She was possibly led to believe that what she was doing was fighting for her country. But it was still a tragedy that she was there and not at home with her family, even though the killing was necessary, given the circumstances.
Personally, I wouldn't condemn people celebrating the deaths of the likes of Trump, Putin or Netanyahu if they were shot. In fact, I would probably be happy myself - especially if Putin.
I also don't think the execution of your CEO guy by Luigi was unjustified either, and don't have a problem with people celebrating that. But these are people in power directly responsible for making the world worse. You can be indirectly responsible for making the world worse and not know it. Such as misled voters (I used to be misled into thinking Brexit was a good thing)
Even when it comes to power, for example, I wouldn't celebrate the death of Lis Truss. She was stupid, but not malicious enough.