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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hope GOMI is proud of itself for pursuing and mocking this lady.  Remember how mad GOMI was 10 years ago that MOMS were making money off the INTERNET by telling their STORIES about raising their children?!  And how awful Alice thought it was that women were asking readers for donations, and then Alice asked her readers for donations (and got them, while also policing their website emails and deleting the accounts of people who wrote bad things about her - I was never a member but that's what I saw on reddit)?

Please don't read GOMI and don't support Alice.  Follow or don't follow who you want, but don't subscribe to the culture of women knocking down other women just for sport and some lols.[/quote]

GOMI did not kill Heather. Just because people write things on the internet about you doesn't mean you have to read them. I've never googled my own name, for example. [/quote]

Justifying the tormenting of a human being is shameful.  Shame on you.  [/quote]

I feel no shame, because I bear no responsibility. Firstly, we're all assuming Heather killed herself. For all we know, she got hit by a car or something. Secondly, adults are responsible for themselves. Heather had health insurance, family and friends - she had access to all the resources for blocking any site that talked about her online. Again, if you don't want to read things about yourself, you make a choice to avoid them. [/quote]

What kind of logic is this??  I'm allowed to say unbelievably sh!tty things about someone all the time, but it's OK because they may not read it and/or know it was me? This is what you consider ethical behavior?[/quote]

I never said unbelievably shitty things about Heather. And if I did, she was being unbelievably shitty. I don't subscribe to the concept that you have to put anyone whose died on a pedestal. If she did really shitty things, yeah I probably talked about it. If she chose to read that, that's on her. You have to own what you do and say. She said TONS of very personal stuff about her daughters that had to be embarrassing for them. If I talked about how crappy that was of her to do, I'm okay with that.[/quote]

You can also refuse to "put anyone whose died on a pedestal" while also not going out of your way to say nasty things about them, on the day their death is announced. You could choose to NOT say nasty things.

That is where your problem with ethics is. If this was a person you knew and children you knew, would you make the same comments, with your name attached to them? I doubt it. If the answer is yes, you are just a bad person. If the answer is no, you are a hypocrite. But fine! You feel good about it. Have a great Wednesday. RIP Dooce.[/quote]

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