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Oh, sorry, are you saying the use of guns is justified and nonviolent if the intention is to reduce further violence?
Drag wonders if this principle could be applied to any recent events…
I guess we’ll just see how much or how little good comes of all this very soon, won’t we?
Best possible case scenario: it’s still legal to rip people off and privatize healthcare, so that just keeps happening but at least we get to feel good about punishing that one guy’s family for his crimes.
Worst case scenario: A very large number of copycat killers (secretly funded by overseas autocrats) drag Taylor Swift across pavement, Bill Gates burns alive in his home, and both of their heirs invest everything into fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the new US Administration views the situation as worthy of enforcing martial law and deploys the military on its own people. Congress is reluctant at first, but it could always be one of them killed by a vigilante next.
But most likely scenario is still that nothing has changed, nothing will
If you believe that his family was punished, then do you believe that the death penalty as used by the justice system is also a punishment on those people’s families? Because kin punishment is generally considered a human rights violation, and is illegal in the US as far as I’m aware.
Are you comparing the justice system to vigilante’s killing unarmed civillians in the street as equals?
Let me tell you the difference. You could have voted to change the laws, voted in the people who selected the judges, when you’re arrested it’s the result of choices made by every eligible american citizen, in some states including felons.
You don’t get to choose if a guy who shoots you next week. You don’t get to state your case before a jury. It’s a system where the people most willing and able to commit harm are kings.
kinda defeating yout own point here:
the guy made the concious decision to ruin strangers lives for nothing but his personal greed every single day.
that was HIS choice, HIS action, HIS decision.
well…actions tend to have consequences.
this was a direct consequence of actions the CEO willingly made, repeatedly.
nobody forced him to. nobody compelled him to.
so yeah, he DID choose exactly this, no question about it.
the hypothetical voter in your example indirectly chooses his judgement, this CEO chose directly, all by himself.
so as you can see: the CEO very much DID vote for his fate. he voted every single day working for UHC.
your comment is the absolutely highest form of hypocrisy.
And you should have voted against privatized healthcare like 16 years ago and every time since, but the majority keeps choosing self harm and anybody loyal to the country has to deal with it.
There is no hipocrisy here. I think people who choose to be harmed have to deal with it, that people don’t get to kill outside of the confines of the law.
I believe Democracy is the best system for mankind, through and through, with all of its flaws.
You haven’t got a fucking clue what you’re talking about. What happened 16 years ago? Obama got elected and brought us a Republican healthcare plan designed by the heritage foundation. Joe Lieberman, a democrat voted against single payer. And if it weren’t him it would of been another democrat spoiler to vote against anything remotely good for the general public. And obamacare is awful, we exist under it currently. Typical to liberalism there was no structural change, it was just a generous handout to insurance companies and a little slap on the wrist that they have to insure everyone. does that mean provide healthcare? NO. it meant rob people with insane premiums and then deny and delay care. 33% of UHC claims got denied. One of their Medicare (dis)advantage plans denied 90% of claims via AI that they knew was faulty.
Fuck these people they deserve death.
We don’t have a democratic republic. We have a house of cards that’s falling fast.
EDIT FOR THE DUMB KOOL AID DRINKING FUCKING LIBERAL CLOWNS WHO VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO BECAUSE THEYRE TOO STUPID TO SEE THE SYSTEM IS WORKING EXACTLY AS DESIGNED:
The bill was originally a single payer system but couldn’t get through the senate without more votes.
Because of DEMOCRAT Joe Lieberman.
of course there’s hypocrisy here:
you are treating the choices of the two people in question as equal. they are not.
the CEO was in a position of power, abused that power, and suffered the consequences. that is justice fulfilled. not the preferred kind, but still justice.
apart from that, the democratic process spectacularly failed, on this exact topic: obama DID try to enact healthcare reform, but was blocked at every step.
if voting does absolutely nothing, you’re not leaving people a whole lot of options.
the justice system does nothing to help, the voting process has failed to help…what is then left?
this isn’t some horrific, abstract, morally ambigous consequence of a cascade of nebulous events.
there is a very clear cause and effect.
push a boulder off a hilltop; it will roll downhill.
leave a person no other option, but violence; it will end in violence.
it’s a strictly logical consequence.
there is no moral ambiguity here at all. it was a clearly warranted action, with known causes.
cause and effect is a matter of physics, not philosophy.
if you want to blame anyone, blame the republicans: they are the guilty ones here. they are directly responsible for the circumstances that allowed this situation to happen in the first place.
yes, it’s not an ideal outcome.
but it was inevitable, sooner or later. and it’s frankly amazing it hasn’t happened MUCH sooner, and MUCH more often.
this wasn’t a “flaw” in the “democratic” system of the U.S. this is a consequence of the oligarchy working as intended. the intent just happens to be self-destructive in this case.
what this CEO did, was the equivalent of smoking at a gas station; are you really surprised he got blown to bits?
i guess it really comes down to: Fuck Around; Find Out.
well…he did find out, didn’t he?
(and don’t assume i’m a U.S. citizen. it doesn’t matter, and i’m not.)
You don’t get to fulfill justice on your own. Because somebody else is then emboldened to fulfill their justice on you. Suddenly communities decide to fulfill justice against groups of people they don’t like: smaller groups of people of different ancestry. Maybe they start putting them in chains and forcing them to work, too.
Thats not Justice. It’s lawless anarchy of the worst kind.
mother of slippery slope…
everything you’ve said so far takes place in some fantasy world that exists only within your own imagination.
the law failed. the democratic process failed.
your argument boils down to: “please let’s just give the tyrants everything they want from us! it’s the law!”
seriously, is this your first day on earth?
do you simply lack any and all perspective?
and to top it all off: the sheer disregard you show for the countless lives this CEO cut short is frankly breathtaking.
you claim to care for all human life and think everyone deserves a fair trial. that’s well amd good…how could that possibly have ever happened under the current state of affairs in the u.s.? when HAS it ever happened? what makes you think it possibly could?
this was the only way that murderer would ever face justice, and deep down you know that.
Blaming working class people deprived of Healthcare for their own deaths is revolting.
You say that as if Trump whose platform involves pure privatization of healthcare didn’t win the vast majority of low education voters.
This was a political issue. Single Payer was on the ballot and couldn’t pass Senate under Obama, and purely because of that people like the UHC CEO exist at all.
We’ve tried the whole voting thing for 40 years now. We’ve tried the whole justice system thing for 40 years now.
It doesn’t work. Make peaceful change impossible and violent revolution becomes inevitable. Hope this CEO is just the first to fall.
Our entire system is corrupt from top to bottom and there’s no more playing nice.
The USA hasn’t tried shit, thats why we’re in this mess.
Obamacare was originally a single payer bill which was defeated in the senate.
Since then we elected more pure privatization officials. We gave the Biden admin a conservative congress and SCOTUS.
We had a big shiny lever that said (STOP KILLING SICK PEOPLE) and we refused to pull it for over a decade.
Don’t forget it was DEMOCRAT joe Lieberman who single-handedly tanked single payer.
I do not forgive nor forget what the democrats have done. They’re so full of fucking shit and there’s always a spoiler on their side to torpedo any kind of remotely progressive legislation. And then they’ll blame republicans saying they don’t have the votes and the stupid masses eat it right up.
I vote murder at this point. Also it’s been like four+ decades now, not one.
Joe Leiberman got old and died age 82 in 2013, but we still got medicaid expansion out of it if nothing else.
Meanwhile every single Republican voted no on even that.
This is a great example of the point I was making: Vote Democrat and you will get more or possibly even all healthcare covered. Vote Republican and they will do everything in their power to take it all away.
Cool, democrats have had power on and off for years. I’m 35. 8 years with Clinton, 8 years with obama, 4 years with biden. Nothings changed for the better. Healthcare “access” is fucking bullshit if it doesn’t involve actual care.
Pay premiums just to not get care. Great system. Thank you JOE LIEBERMAN for single-handedly killing the single payer option. Oh he’s dead? Cool, there will be another spoiler to replace him. Cue Manchin and Sinema. Or the unheard of senate parliamentarian when it comes to raising the minimum wage for the first time since fucking 2009!
He was not civilian, he was a CEO a member of the ruling class. He wasn’t some working class everyman, he was a profiteer of medical malpractice. He was the grim reaper and could decide arbitrarily every day whether people lived or died. The more he choose for them to die the more money he made.
He had rights to a trial before execution, even the worst of us do. I don’t mourn him, but the killer should just surrender themselves and ask the judge and jury for lienency.
That other health insurance company already walked back their policy about not covering anaesthetic for the whole of a surgery. Muad’dib has already improved the world.
TBH it’d be hard to organize a board meeting, write up, and sign off on changes like that in like a day so there is a chance that was coincidental timing. You could just as easily say their reversal was the result of the Governor calling them out on it.
Nobody is going after Taylor swift you can calm down. Bill Gates is also an unlikely target.
Neither of those people bring up rage in people. They’re not murdering people’s families for profit by denying and delaying care.
You wanna know who killed my father? The healthcare industry. The insurance companies and the rehab facility (physical, not drug, not that it matters) decided to traffic him and hold him hostage so they could collect his insurance money while refusing to provide care and refusing to send him to the hospital when he needed more intense care. These people are fucking ghouls and they deserve the full wrath of the most heavily armed population on earth.
We’re not exactly deciding who lives or dies as a group, here. It could be literally anybody next and your opinion doesn’t matter.
I can tell you if there’s gonna be another assasination it’s gonna be someone similar to the CEO who just got offed. Universally hated and actively killing people through administrative means.
Again, we don’t get to pick.
well you posed an outlandish scenario as your worst case, yet used a pretty moderate one as your best possible case. i think there is some bias there.
Yeah I really layed it on thick with the WORST outcome. Don’t see any issue at all with the best case, though.
surely the best possible outcome is all CEOs learn their lesson and everybody lives happily ever after?
Even if they do exactly that, there is always going to be somebody new who comes along and sees profit to be made. We don’t have to wait for them to learn, we can just change the laws and reform healthcare.
You seem to have completely failed to understand why exactly people are so supportive of the killer. He didn’t just murder a random stranger. It wasn’t just some guy. He was among the most evil people in America. A man who profited off of denying Healthcare to dying children. Directly. He was an evil cretin. A vile capitalist.
I understand 100%, its really simple to work out. Glad that CEO is dead, fuck em.
Problem is: there should be a price to pay for one of us to kill another illegally. We are not capable of making decisions like that alone, it needed to be done via politics and the courts.
I’m sure if they turn themselves in they will probably be treated very amicably by the jury.