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I was disgusted but not surprised when I learned about the HCA subreddit. It’s petty, brutish and childish. It reminds me of when Bin Laden was killed in 2011 and they televised a stadium full of Americans cheering and celebrating. I thought it was unbecoming of a nation to cheer someone’s death no matter how justified. And my opinion hasn’t changed.

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Celebrating the death of a very well-known world figure (Bin Laden) is perhaps unbecoming and garish, but is understandable, I think.

But this subreddit seems to be celebrating the death of people who are not famous, not well-known, and (at the risk of sounding cruel), not globally important. It's a lot harder to explain this behavior.

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