Does Morality Exist on the Net?

Sometimes I wonder if people are truly morons or if it’s just the freedom of the internet that makes them that way. The following video is only a day old, has received over 2,000 comments and almost all of them are uncalled for.

Warning: the following video is actual footage of the death of Neda, a young Iranian girl just after being shot by sniper. So please, just continue reading below and do not watch the video if you’re not sure you can handle seeing this bloody awful scene.

Anyone with half a heart should be at a loss of words after seeing that. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case for almost 2,000 people on YouTube who still had the balls to type out some inane comment after watching this.

This is arguably the most insulting YouTube comment I have ever read. I called this man Moron #8 but really there is no set of words good enough to describe him.

About 3 or 4 other people made this exact fight club reference and it’s just not funny at all.

Now take these 2 idiots above and try to picture them standing next to you in real life when all of a sudden a sweet looking innocent girl is shot through the heart right in front of you. The young girl’s father cries in panic, holding his dying daughter. And just as all of this is going on you hear these two idiots crack a couple of jokes about it. Unfair scenario? Obviously nobody would say that right there at that moment, but why should it be easier to say in a public forum on the internet?

I can’t for one second put myself in the shoes of someone who can look at this girl’s horrified expression, watch the blood come out from everywhere and then make a fucking obscene joke about it less than 24 hours after it hit the net! I’m no virgin to tasteless humor but this is too real and too damn soon.

It’s not just the tasteless quips that bother me either. A good chunk of the morons responding to this video think this is the relevant place to give their opinion on the U.S. Government’s involvement with Iran or give their 2 cents about a country they don’t know squat about. There is a time and place for those discussions, but this isn’t it. I can’t say for certain, but I’m willing to bet that Neda had no plans on becoming an example of a corrupt Iranian regime, or the mistakes of current and former U.S. presidents. I feel terrible for the girl as I do her father and I am ashamed of everyone who gives anything more than their condolences.

I know, maybe I’m out of line ragging on everyone who says more than just “sorry” but when did having a little good sense become a past time? Who are you to say that someone else’s daughter is a righteous symbol when the girl herself had no prior intentions of becoming that?

Too many people are looking lightly on this and saying whatever they want. The people who want to make this girl a martyr are no better than the people making Fight Club references in my opinion. Only those who were close to Neda have the right to remember her how they see fit, and everyone else can just pass their condolences and move on cause Neda probably doesn’t give a damn what you’re thinking right now, if anything she’d rather just be alive.