You buried your poor pet a couple of weeks ago. One morning, as you walk out the front door - there it is, back from the dead, sitting on your doorstep - quite rotten, and impossibly alive. Rather, un-alive. It seems happy to see you.

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desperately need y'all to understand that when i say "no one deserves to be abused, even if they have done extremely harmful things" i am not saying that You, Personally, Must Feel Sad Emotions About Them

i hate this idea we have that feeling a certain away is a requirement to acting a certain way. its the same shit that makes people view low/no-empathy folks as scary/evil/dangerous because they think that acting ethically towards other people requires certain feelings.

i don't think its bad for a white supremacist woman to get horrifically and misogynistically abused by her husband because i like her. it doesn't matter how i feel about her. i have an ethical worldview i choose to follow and part of that is the idea that no one deserves that and everyone deserves support to get away and heal from that. i can both see how harmful her actions have been, and maybe will continue to be, and support people working against the harm of her misogynistic white supremacism, while also acknowledging that she has been unjustly hurt herself and hoping she heals from that (ideally by growing as a person and rejecting those beliefs). it does not matter how i feel, or how cathartic it feels to see her suffer. you don't have to feel sad about a white supremacist getting abused, but you should acknowledge that it's a bad thing and she deserves help and support to escape that.

i will never demand anyone feel a certain emotion, and if i do, i am violating my own beliefs. saying "no one deserves to suffer and its terrible feminism to celebrate misogynistic abuse or to scrutinize whether a victim deserves to be abused based on their own beliefs" is not a command for you to feel sad for anyone. its a call for you to reflect on your actions and whether or not they are ethical and conducive to the goals of feminist liberation.

i fear a lot of ppl confuse “was this character’s death well written and good for the story” with “did i like it, personally”

when i see takes like “there’s no good reason to kill a character” i’m like fair dues they should’ve just had mufasa comedically stuck in an elevator for the second and third acts of the lion king

For this we take two canon Naruto deaths- those of Sarutobi Asuma and Hyuuga Neji.

Asuma's death is tragic. His girlfriend is pregnant. His murder puts his students on a path of revenge. His death, while upsetting, narratively drove the story and was necessary for the growth that came after. His reappearing and subsequent sealing as an undead ninja finished his work. If Asuma had not died, Team 10 would not be the ninja they are by the end of the story.

Hyuuga Neji's death? Unnecessary. A poor narrative decision. A young man whose only choices in controlling his own fate included beating up his cousin, nearly dying once, and then dying. It did nothing, the equivalent of fridging a character for shock value.

Who should have died then? Easy. Hyuuga Hiashi, Neji's uncle and ultimate architect of his suffering. Had Hiashi died to save Neji, then his death would have been a narrative point forward indicating a change in the Hyuuga. It would have closed the circle begun when Hiashi's twin brother Hizashi (neji's father) died in his place.

Naruto, after the first mission arc, is Not Great, but these two examples of character deaths have always stuck out to me as the best and worst choices, good examples to explain how the loss of a character can be useful and how it's just wasteful.

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