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Ms. Wang Yi (akid), who used to work for Yiyan and the Elephant Association, passed away in Tokyo recently. There are many mourners on the Internet, but most of them are ridiculed and even gloated. I do not deny that there are people in this world whose early death I would like to see, but Ms. Wang Yi is by no means one of them. Even for the wicked, it is imperative to maintain decency and awe when forces greater than all of us take them away.
The cause of Ms. Wang Yi’s death varies, but no one can claim to have the truth. For such an incident, it goes without saying that people who gloat under other people’s misfortune, even if it is a well-intentioned analysis and discussion, I think it should be kept in a private domain. Some people may think this is hypocrisy, but the boundary between hypocrisy and civilization has always been blurred, and being able to distinguish the two in the blur is itself one of the definitions of civilization. Music scholar Richard Taruskin commented on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s refusal to perform John Adams’ opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” after 9/11: “Censorship is always to be condemned, but self-restraint can be a noble sentiment. To know what is noble and what is condemnable is moral stupidity.”
May Madam Wang Yi rest in peace.
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