# rule on evil people's deaths?

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**Created:** [February 1, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rule-on-evil-peoples-deaths/649030 "2013-02-01T13:57:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rule-on-evil-peoples-deaths/649030/15 "2013-02-02T02:07:24Z")

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> [@Anonymous User](#):
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> Sorry, but OP, you are defenseless in this case. You know that wishing death to someone is actually against the Pit rules, so for you to be doing it in MPSIMS is inexcusable.

The rule is against wishing death on _other posters_, and you can’t wish death on someone who has already died. The comment was that he was glad the person is dead.

[We went over this kind of situation when Ted Kennedy died in 2009 (also with analogies to Falwell, who had died in2007).](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529549)

> [@Why was MSWAS warned?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-mswas-warned/507781/43):
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> I would draw a distinction between critical and “I hope he rots in hell.”

So I believe the moderation here was consistent with how threads like this have been handled in the past.

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