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Something I was brought up to believe was that you shouldn't speak ill of the recently deceased. A courtesy to those in mourning. I struggle with that rule som

Something I was brought up to believe was that you shouldn't speak ill of the recently deceased. A courtesy to those in mourning. I struggle with that rule sometimes.

lern_too_spel 7mo ago
And Chuck Norris was brought up to believe that gay people are the devil. I was conditioned to not take my parents traditions as gospel. The taboo against speaking ill of the recently deceased is not universal as we saw after Khamenei's death, and it is possible to debate whether we should discuss the failings of the recently deceased dispassionately, as newspaper obituaries usually do, and whether the impact on society of those critiques is net negative or not. There is the famous case of a premature unflattering obituary of Alfred Nobel upon the death of his brother possibly inspiring Nobel to think about his legacy, for example. All this to say that I don't think it's necessarily problematic for you to mention that he had and shared some pretty awful views.