Should we mock anti-vaxxers who die of COVID?

[femmedem]

22. I don't understand your reasoning. What do their friends and loved ones have to do with it?

"They quite obviously don't give a crap about anyone but themselves, so why should I waste one second being nice to their friends and loved ones when they die from COVID?"

There are plenty of people on DU who are friends and loved ones of people who didn't get vaccinated and either died or are still suffering the effects of severe covid. I remember one even begging DU not to mock her loved one on her thread.

The dead being mocked don't suffer from being mocked. But the mocking does hurt their friends and families, many of whom are wrestling with their own complicated feelings about people who died because they wouldn't get vaccinated.

You don't even have to waste a second being nice. But you don't have to waste a second being mean, either.