@TheMiddleWay and I argued about the reasonableness of the scenario posed in the poll below in the thread here: "Why People Are Keeping Unvaccinated COVID Deaths Secret"
In case the questions and answers are too long and get cut off, here they are in full:
Would it be okay/fair/reasonable for the parents of kids who committed a school shooting massacre (and died in the process) to go onto a social media platform and solicit support and sympathy along with the parents of the victims?
No. Completely inappropriate. They'd cause even more harm doing this.
Yes. They lost a just like the other parents. Well, not just like, but they still deserve to seek sympathy and support in that online community without being reminded their kid did something wrong.
@TheMiddleWay Apparently I don't have enough people that haven't blocked me to get a good sample size of brespondents for my polls... Or an interesting enough topic for the people that don't have me blocked to read and vote. There were at least 5 people here that weren't us and only two cast votes.
@TheMiddleWay I edited. Do you think that will help?
@TheMiddleWay Eh, there have been 8 beside us and still only two votes. I, and my poor suicidal cat, just don't have the juice to get poll numbers up.
By "solicit support" do you mean a gofundme, "thoughts and prayers" , or both? Or does it matter?
Any kind of support I suppose would be a similar argument. Don't know why it would be perfectly okay for the parents of the kid that murdered a bunch of other kids to seek emotional support from the murdered children's parents and the rest of the online community, but completely inappropriate to plug a gofundme if they couldn't afford the funeral services they'd need to "grieve properly". That said, I think we were talking about emotional support and sympathy.