Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama has passed away at age 90.

[Hynad]

twintail said:

Mnementh said:

I am fully aware of who he is and what he said. But that doesn't make a person celebrating the death of someone else suddenly a hero or something. That behaviour is still shitty, even if the person it is targeted at is a bad person. So be relieved or damn his deeds (as I did), but celebrating it is another thing.

The issue is that you created a false equivalence between the DQ composer and ppl who are happy he is dead, completely disregarding the massive gulf between what equates to 'bad' for both. In this post you attempt to dismiss the reactions of the latter, which only serves to validate Sugiyama's status as a good composer while ignoring his very bigoted views.

No one is trying to be a 'hero', they are just glad that a very horrible human being is no longer alive to continue spewing his war crime denialism and anti-lgbt agenda into public discourse. 

There’s bad, and there’s worst. Mnementh didn’t say people were as bad as Sugiyama, but celebrating someone’s death in the manner it’s being done by some people here is bad human behaviour. Worst, no. But you don’t become a good person simply by going with “not as bad as them”. Bad/wrong remains bad/wrong, even if there’s worse.

People here should be better than that.