Naomi - //People who are pleased when terrorists die aren’t dehumanised – they’re capable of feeling sympathy for the death of others. //
Although you state that as though it is a fact, it is just your view, and it is a valid, or if you like, invalid, as my view.
// The demise of a terrorist is a good thing because it means the world is a little safer, that’s all. //
That is absolutely not the same thing, and you know it.
The posts that have prompted my response are not saying, in measured tones, that the removal of a terrorist helps make us all safer, which is a valid point, they say 'Good!', 'Serves them right!' 'Two less!' and so on ad nauseum, which is not the same reaction at all.
It amounts to this - accepting that the death of a terrorist means the safety of others is increased is, in my view, a valid way of looking at the loss of a life.
To take obvious pleasure in the violent death of another human being is dehumanising, and again in my view, that chips away at the essence of humanity, that divides us from them.