The assassination of United Healthcare's CEO is a real life trolley problem, and a select few are trying to argue to save all lives while the train is going to kill the masses.
The assassination of United Healthcare's CEO is a real life trolley problem, and a select few are trying to argue to save all lives while the train is going to kill the masses.
It appears that in every thread about this event there is someone calling everyone else in the thread sick and twisted for not proclaiming that all lives are sacred and being for the death of one individual.
It really is a real life trolley problem because those individuals are not seeing the deaths caused by the insurance industry and not realizing that sitting back and doing nothing (i.e. not pulling the lever on the train track switch) doesn't save lives...people are going to continue to die if nothing is done.
Taking a moral high ground and stating that all lives matter is still going to costs lives and instead of it being a few CEOs it will be thousands.
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The problem with the trolley problem is that this event isn't a trolley problem. Killing one CEO doesn't save lives, hell just be replaced and more guarded now.
We need proper reform and regulation.
In America, the right to bear arms goes hand in hand with its dislike of regulation. Maybe the system is working the way it was intended for the first time?
When 1A fails, 2A has to save the day. I think we are seeing this first hand.
Tyranny over played its hand.
Worth remembering that people died from Tar and feathering.
If you were to continue killing CEOs, eventually the CEOs would call for change themselves. One dead CEO isn't going to change that. Hypothetically, of course.
I actually agree with you, but I don't see the regulation playing out in our favor. If anything, any future regulation will only increase the despotism against the 99%, which will in turn result in more of this. The other comments regarding the right to bear arms, and the founding concepts of throwing off despotism seem to be at play here. Instead of killing the lawmakers, this assassination went right to the source, corporations.
It wasn't "right" for the continental army to shoot and kill british soldiers either, but it was also very very right to wage that war.
Baby steps.
Yeah I’m sure there’s a new CEO now, but consider that whatever schmuck ends up in that chair next knows he’s taking over from a predecessor that was deposed for wildly unpopular policies at the helm to hold profits over people.
Mr schmuck will definitely be sweating it when faced with similar decisions because fear of it affecting him personally, e.g. catching a bullet, is a real possibility. I guarantee you that thought has never crossed any of these CEOs minds before this happened.
All the assassin did was force them to understand they have skin in the game.
How badly do they want more money? How does the calculus shake out with this new variable of self preservation? Is it worth looking over your shoulder every time walking down the street?
This is why people are arguing it’s the trolley problem