Amy Winehouse Is Dead

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Yawn. Tryhard cynic gives typical "I am so above everyone else and am totally above feeling any fake, media-driven compassion for another human being's death" posts, which are basically equally as cliche as the posts that try to be compassionate. I think it's human nature for people to be compassionate to the dead, especially to those who clearly had troubled/tragic lives, because they are 1) dead and 2) can't defend their honour, so people naturally recognise that all of us are mortal and that probably we'd like to be treated similarly when we die, with some basic form of respect and not venom. I don't know why you need to try to prove how allegedly transcendent you are, but you just come off looking like an adolescent jerk.

That came off more venomous than I intended, but posts like yours are so typical and baiting and, frankly, they just piss me off.

Unfortunately almost all of this is untrue. I'm not a "tryhard cynic", I'm not trying to prove how "allegedly transcendent" I am and I'm not being "typical and baiting". If you can't tell the difference between someone's honest opinion of the life and untimely death of a celebrity and the trolls on Youtube who post poor insults in the comments section in order to get a rise out of people then any guess you try to make of posts of either variety will fall wide of the mark. I wasn't looking for a response, nor was I attempting to bait anyone here. I was merely posting my honest opinion. Just because my opinion runs contrary to the manufactured outpouring of grief the media has whipped up in order to sell stories doesn't mean I lose my right to express myself in an honest way, even if I am blunt and pragmatic in my approach. To be anything less would not be worth posting.