When Saddam Hussein was captured, everyone cheered. Approporiate. When the big statue came down everyone celebrated. Appropriate.
People stood right there at the death gallows and yelled and screamed there jubilance as Saddam swung in the breeze. Is that appropriate? Maybe I just don't understand because I didn't go through all that those people did.
Does the sanctity and respect for the dead ever take over? I realize that Saddam never had much respect for the dead. But are we no better?
Seems to me that a quiet and very sobering finality would have been the mood. Do you have any thoughts on this????
2006-12-30 09:55:54 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I agree. As long as someone is alive, we can whoop and holler, but when they pass over, some amount of respectful restraint is best. it is a reflection of your respect for human life in general.
2006-12-30 11:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by turtle girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great point. I find it a little barbaric and uncivilized.
Saddam was an evil man, no doubt. He will not be missed by very many people. I myself am neither for nor against the death penalty. Evil people deserve to die and burn in hell, certainly, but the death penalty seems to be done mainly for emotional gratification than anything else...as does the whole cheering and celebrating hoopity-hoo. Throwing a party at the gallows does not undo all the evil that the man has done.
When Saddam was executed, friends called and emailed me all excited, like, aren't you glad the &%#$# was hung? Sure, I am glad that he is gone, but I felt more somber about it more than anything else -- like it was a shame that someone had lived such a terrible existence in the first place to deserve such a terrible end. I'm sure I'd feel a lot differently if I had been through what those people did, and I'd probably be whooping it up too though.
There's my two and a half cents.
2006-12-31 03:07:30 · answer #2 · answered by NA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think we are better. Saddam had absolutely no respect for the human race period.
He was evil. Just like Hitler. Yet our government is worried about what they should do with the body............... I say the only respect he should get from us is to hand his body over to his family. Then let the people do with him what they want. Whether it be torn from limb to limb and dragged down the street. Or buried in an un-marked grave. I guarantee that he wont be there long.
Now for sanctity and respect........ I will save it for someone who deserves it. Even if it where my enemy.
Saddam was far worse than an enemy.
Thats just my thoughts. Forgive me if it seems harsh.
2006-12-30 18:34:13 · answer #3 · answered by kathleen_martin8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In every situation God always knows best. Some humans do whatever comes to without looking back or giving their actions a rethink. Actually I never expected anyone to be happy because he died or anything; what I expected them to think of is what would happpen to them after his death.
He's already dead and he has left the worldly things whatever his judgement would be nobody knows. We will only say ours and go. Those who are happy that he has been killed right now; 'The questions after his death has peace reigned in Iraq?'
Because not long after his death, I heard of another bomb blast. And some other athrocities. What does that mean?
People of Iraq were supposed to think fast and find away to resolve their differences but instead some groups were happy while some are in pain. I see nothing that calls for happiness in this situation.
As for those who were present at the hang are they ever gong to be normal? That for sure they will remain unstable. For you to have withnessed the death of a man no matter what he has done in the past. Mere seeing dangling by the rope after been hanged, their life will never be the same anymore.
But for them they were happy that the devil has been killed. I am totally against that.
They only put him out of his misery. It favours him to die than to be alive.
If you say yes we have killed Sadam what about the cold blooded killers who never touches guns nor arrows but only orders people lay siege unto another set of people. Do person's like that deserve to to be Alive?
I am against all the athrocities Sadam has committed. But what about the other demonic beings who are still in poor? But most people are viewing them through another perspective.
God knows best.
Lets hope Iraqi's recover from their loss.
May Almighty God be with us All, Amen
2006-12-30 18:31:08 · answer #4 · answered by Adewale 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in complete argreement with you...This is the exact behaviour that we in the West speak out against, now we are cheering along with the other whackos and viewing footage of a hanging???? What the hell is going on? Have we all lost our minds? Quite honestly, the whole thing creeps me out, as much as Saddam did.....
2006-12-30 20:35:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that we can't really criticize the people who cheered. Think about it. Lets say that you had a loved one who was brutally murdered by him. Would you give respect to the man when he died? Especially since he killed your loved one so brutally, painfully, and inhumanly? Its all about perspective.
In my case, i dont think he deserved respect at the gallows. I didn't loose anyone or evey eyewitness anything, but there were a lot of people and cameras that did, and what they saw and witnessed was enough to persuade me.
2006-12-30 20:25:43 · answer #6 · answered by navdeepkaur 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We unfortunately live in a mad world, many things that happen are beyond our control.
The one thing that we do have control over is how we feel and react to events that happen.
If anyone killed my any of my friends or family, I would want revenge, it is part of human nature.
Revenge has a snowball effect, it will soon effect many more people than than the original crime.
I feel the murder of anyone, regardless of their crime/s is ironic, execution is murder, I would think a greater weight could not be imposed on the shoulders anyone, than to end another persons life.
To carry such a burden with pride is a clear indication of how inhuman mankind has become.
To celebrate the death of anyone is to broadcast the death of your own humanity.
2006-12-30 18:57:24 · answer #7 · answered by treb67 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you think that Sadam didn't laugh when he was killing all of the innocent men, women, and children? Do you think his sons weren't laughing when they were raping young girls and killing them "for hobby" as described by a former aid of theirs. Do you think that their wasn't relief and excitement in the eyes and face of Saddam when the twin towers were burned and destroyed changing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of peoples lives? If you don't like what you see, turn off the TV,and avoid all media contact because as for myself, I live in the United States, and I will celebrate the death of Sadam Hussein, and I look forward to the hanging of Osama!!!
2006-12-30 18:05:35 · answer #8 · answered by Chelle 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, you just move on. A terrible entity was taken care of, but there were people who loved him. Next course of action everyone in Iraq? They should just get busy and address the problems they are capable of.
It is like bad winners that gloat and smear it in the losers face. This can cause problems...
I tried avoiding having his face pop up on my screen everytime I went online today. It is mission accomplished in my mind and we don't have any time to feel superior about anything at this point.
Mr. Gates, can you please provide censor capability to personal computers so we can delete people we don't want to be forced to look at???!!!
2006-12-30 18:13:19 · answer #9 · answered by K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say that it should be a very solem moment. I didn't think it was anything to cheer about even though I do not respect him. It is sort of scary how because now he will pay an even bigger price in my opinion. I
2006-12-30 18:01:23 · answer #10 · answered by java348 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋