Amy Winehouse vs Norway?

by Dai Howells

Amidst the twin horrors of an atrocity in Norway and the death of a hugely talented singer and songwriter in London, Facebook erupted with sympathy and well wishing. Zithromax pharmacy

But then…

Well, then the kind of sanctimony, anger and self-righteousness that makes you doubt Darwin’s theory  altogether threatened to take over. Levitra reviews So deeply entrenched was the friend/tweet/circle feed that it was hard to find the genuine well-wishing in amongst all the bile.

It all began when, amidst all the grief and sorrow surrounding the death of Amy Winehouse, hideously crass comments such as “one less junkie” started bubbling to the surface.

Now, you, as a reasonable human being would surely read this and think the world has reached its cultural nadir and it’s now only a matter of time before Lucifer himself emerges from our collective arsehole and fucks us clean off the face of the planet. Right?

Wrong.

That was, of course, until one comment read – “I hope she was in pain when she died.”

(I kid you not, that was actually written on Facebook)

Which, let’s face it, needs no more of a riposte than to hope the perpetrator themselves knows all too soon the virulence of such words. The worthless cunt.

Then, secondly, came the comparison. Vardenafilo levitra

Any time anyone expressed any sort of sadness, sympathy or sorrow about the passing of Amy Winehouse, they were invariably met with a stony riposte that went something along the lines of:

“How can people be sad for Winehouse when scores online lasix have died in Norway?”

Well, quite.

If I had a penny for every time I saw this sentence I’d be a rich and angry man.

But let’s delve a little deeper. To deny people the right to be sad about one tragedy in the face of the other is to deny people the multiplicity of mixed emotions. Order Doxycycline It’s to imagine that we are highly evolved creatures yet can think of only one thing at a time. It’s – again – like taking all Darwin said about human evolution and simply giving it back. These people seem to think that sadness and sympathy have linear, unwavering qualities, as though you can quantify grief like some sort of cadaverous Top Trumps. Levitra generico buy drugs online

Maybe, one day in the future, people can be left to their sorrow without heckles from juveniles and sycophants who see online forums as ways to peddle their filthmongery because in the real world they’d be too scared to make such utterances for the fear of being punched in the eyes.

It’s a crazy, maverick idea but hey, we live in a crazy maverick world where right wing nutters think it’s perfectly reasonable to kill someone who opposes their horrifically deluded views or where press dolts think nothing of goading a young woman clearly toiling under the grip of addiction. Florida codes bank

But maybe it could work. Cheap Levitra online Though we have quite the distance to travel yet. Buy antibiotics online without prescription. Online Drugstore.

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