2016 Was Awesome!

[robzo100]

Chazore said:

robzo100 said:

I don't feel threatened by the "bad news" of celebrities dying because I don't know them. If Carrie Fisher was a role-model of yours throughout your life that's one thing. I have my role-models as well, we all do. But if she wasn't then why not ask yourself why you feel saddened in the same way you ask why I feel threatened.

For her family it was a downer on their year. For you? Were you her family? 

Death is absolute? Okay, it happens every year so please explain to everyone how 2016 deaths were worse than 2015/14/13 deaths. You can't just include the famous celebrities you know. Which begs the other important question. Why would famous deaths be more important than unknown deaths if death is "absolute" how ever you spin it.

So her dying doesn't make it a downer for me at all then?. Are people only allowed to feel like they had a shit year when just their family members die, is this now an official rule?.

Again, you aren't answering the original point, do you think that each year, besides the few wars, are objectively good no matter what?. You seem to be very cock sure that nothing ever makes for a bad eyar in the objective sense, but I know you're wrong on that by accounts of different acts that take place each year, death being one that constantly happens, yet numbers and people shouldn't be tossed aside like chess pieces. 

People of her status die every year. Is every year bad as well?

No, I don't think every year is objectively good. In fact I think this is a highly subjective point that other people have made in the thread. One person can ahve a good year, and another person a bad year. However, I think most people don't have catastrophic or controversial years - many people have illustrated this by saying nothing special happened this year. Special things may ahve happened (it's life after all), but it wasn't filled with them.

I guess I understand how baffled you are by my point of view because I can't for the life of me understand how the deaths of unrelated people (why does it matter if they are a celebrity?) could change the entire outlook of a *whole* year...