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They celebrate it because that's the kind of beings that they are, and they can do no better.

They feel that someone communicating ideas that challenge theirs is such an affront - such a disturbance to their self-assured sense of personal rightness and superiority - that that person's death is a good solution.

Or to put it another way - they're like this because they're confident they won't receive comeuppance for being so. It's like a "what you gonna do?" frolic.

>>jalape+(OP)
I thought there was something wrong with me because of how many people were celebrating an assassination! But realized it was not, when people from my native culture were all shocked and surprised by the same. In spite of being bad at processing emotional signals from the others, I can easily imagine myself on the other side and see how such responses will affect them. How much empathy do you need to be able to do that?

It's like an entire generation is suffering from a serious emotional malady. It feels like the entire society got derailed morally and ethically. What happened? Did education fail everyone that much?