Luigi Mangione smile

[Elliott]

50 minutes ago, DocWatts said:

And so was a concentration camp guard.

Fact of the matter is that Brian Thompson became fabulously wealthy denying people access to health care. The fact that we view intentionally denying people access to life saving care as ethically different from walking into an intensive care unit, unplugging those patients from their life support, and dumping their bodies out on the street just shows how inconsistent our ethical intuitions are.

Were there ever any protests against United Health or Brian Johnson, boycotts? I never heard of any. It's psychopathic to jump straight to assassination, regardless of how normalized that is in the u.s.

Edited 5 hours ago by Elliott

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, Yali said:

How do you psychologically explain Luigi? Is he stage red? or a pyscho? or just thoroughly deceived? @Leo Gura

I haven't studied him so I don't know.

From what I heard his family member was hurt by that company/CEO, so nothing surprising.

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Yimpa]

6 hours ago, Yali said:

How do you psychologically explain Luigi? Is he stage red?

I think he is Stage Green, with a bit of Red (like Mario)

[DocWatts]

3 hours ago, Elliott said:

Were there ever any protests against United Health or Brian Johnson, boycotts? I never heard of any. It's psychopathic to jump straight to assassination, regardless of how normalized that is in the u.s.

What people don't seem to understand is that a gradual transition into the type of universal health care system that every other developed nation takes for granted is the compromise - and what happened to Brian Thompson is the alternative. Stranger still is the idea that people are just going to meekly consent to impoverishment and death just so a handful of sociopaths can enrich themselves at their expense.

Protesting United Health Care does jack shit when the for-profit healthcare industry has thoroughly captured the political institutions that are supposed to be regulating their behavior. When money is equated to free speech (thanks SCOTUS!), lobbying becomes a legalized form of bribery.

Personally, I'd greatly prefer that we channel this rage into a passing constitutional amendment to get money out of politics and then pass some form of universal healthcare, rather than having assassinations of healthcare executives. But I'm not going to feel a deep sense of shock and outrage over an administrative murderer getting iced by one of his victims.

Edited 1 hour ago by DocWatts