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When I saw NSFW I was expecting some swear words, not graphic images of a dead body.
100% agree. This is a far fucking step up from NSFW. I'm quite angry at this one for not just mislabelling - but the absolute disgusting, flippant and completely inhumane disregard for human life that this post represents.

Browser-humor does not equate appropriately the the real human tragedy that this represents.

I am really and honestly furious at this.

You've clearly never been on the internet before. That image is already linked on thousands of sites. I'm assuming you'd say this exact same thing if I posted tubgirl or detroit hardcore?
Oscar,

This is not 4chan. I don't know what Tubegirl or Detroit Hardcore is and based on context I don't think I want to know.

Human life is is precious and that man was someone's son, possibly someone's husband and god forbid also someone's father. He was a person and he was loved by someone.

A web browser failing to render a gradient background properly, a few minutes of --IF IE-- hacks will never add up to anything even beginning to approximate the loss in that photo.

NSFW as a tag clearly has some room to fudge with cheekiness. Maybe it's an exposed boob or even a particularly racy cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

There is also a point where it crosses the line into something very different.

     In 1964, Justice Potter Stewart tried to explain 
     "hard-core" pornography, or what is obscene, by 
     saying, "I shall not today attempt further to 
     define the kinds of material I understand to be 
     embraced . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it . . . "
I understand that you must feel slighted because you seem to be desensitized to this, and apparently other images of death and dismemberment. I'm sorry if my response has hurt your feelings - but your post is obscene and inappropriate.

Further to the disregard for the pain of the individual in that photo, you're also carelessly exposing individuals who have suffered similar losses in their lives to very painful memories.

You're doing it flippantly and needlessly.

It's horrible.