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9. Hint: It's not about John McCain or anything John McCain ever said or did.
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 05:54 PM
Aug 2018

John McCain is dead. You'll not change his history or behavior. You'll not change any opinion of him.

Eulogies are not for you or your irritations. Eulogies are for the living, the relatives, those who carry on. It's an attempt to extract something good from the life and the loss, and to hold it up for praise and emulation. Everyone involved already knows the decease's failings. No one needs reminding. To bring it up only serves to make a perpetual enemy of those who are painfully mourning. Decent people know this. Find a snippet worth living for and move on.

That's just civil society 101, the basics. There's no reason to turn his death into a tribal war unless it's a tribal war you want.

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