Still a murderer. Regardless of how much we agree with his reasons and the rest of the outcomes.
Fuck that CEO, and fuck the entire US health insurance system, but I'm just not going to delude myself that this guy did not murder the piece of shit.
Edit: See, this is exactly what I'm so against. Too many people are willing to shit on anyone who says anything slightly negative about this guy, all while throwing logic out the window. This is disgusting and outright dangerous behavior.
People need to not lose sight that things got so bad that this guy had to take it this far. Downplaying the fact this was murder is not good.
Whether or not he is a murderer depends on whether the DA can meet their burden of proving he committed the acts necessary to satisfy the elements of NYS definition of whatever degree of murder the Grand Jury indicts (if that happens) AND he is not able to establish the affirmative defense of justification.
None of these determinations have been made yet.
I gotta ask, are you a time traveler or a boot licker?
You're using the legal definition, and there is no legal justification for what he did. I do believe there's a moral one, though.
Also I was unaware that the taking of a life with justification in the law is not considered murder.
Whether there is a legal justification depends on a jury. Sorry you don’t like it but it’s how the law works. I suggest you try to learn about the things you have opinions on.
Then blame the monsters who ignore human rights for sake of profit, and their enablers. Not the person who saved lives by giving the billionaires a reality check. Yes, it was an unlawful killing. But if the law protects mass murder by denial of life saving care, then how should people change something?
it is unfortunate that someone had to be killed. the argument is that there is no other way to accomplish change. and I would probably agree with that.
I mean, not liking the reality you live in is sure a good response, but fuck it dude. You live in it. Time to get off the centrist hand-wringer, no good to anybody fence.
You are missing the point. Murder is a legal term with a specific meaning. By using it here, before the legal process has even started, you demonstrate a bias in favor of the capital class. Even in your response the CEO “caused deaths” but the individual committed a “murder.”
Language matters. Adopting the language of the capitalist class (assuming you are not a part of that class) is what makes you a bootlicker.
Your pathetic pedantry shows your underlying need to find any justification to join the disgusting mob behavior against anyone who doesn't conform perfectly to the whims of the mindless behavior you decided to be your personality. You clearly are looking for any reason to try to remove my own humanity and individuality by classifying me as an enemy.
I’ll say it slow (I would use crayon if that was an option here). You are making a legal determination. The law in the USA recognizes the right of the jury to decide whether something was justified or not.
If my opinion of you effects how you feel about your humanity I suggest therapy and touching some grass
You can criticize both a piece of shit profiting off the misery of others, and the person that murdered him in cold blood and took a father away from two children. You can also criticize them both without equating them, in fact.
It is a essentially an anti elite shill campaign along with sign of solidarity with Luigi, he did it or not, and you show up to the party with:
askhually murder is bad guys, mkkay...
Like no shit sherlock, but that's what are focusing here on. Murder is provocative and it got people talking about health insurance being a scam and the relationship these companies have with people who pay for everything.
But sure murder is bad, Brian Thompson is a piece of shit so nobody cares. They prefer to care about the people he killed and hopefully a new system where there is no room for his kind.
People voted for privatized healthcare. They created the UHC. Nobody holds a vote for vigilante murder, nor is anything significant gained by setting the killer free.
You seem to be getting dangerously close to advocating for imprisonment of Luigi Mangione. Imprisonment is a violent act, and nobody here wants to be exposed to somebody advocating violence.
Just to give one more take (without contributing any hostility, I hope!) - one way to look at it might be that you see this new development (Thompson's murder and the nation's "hell yeah!") as the scary, dangerous step too far, whereas maybe many of us see the scary dangerous step(s) too far as having already happened (maybe long) in the past.
We're in a really scary situation as a country, and that was almost exactly as true the day before Thompson's murder as it is today. The significant events leading to our scary situation are a list of egregious misdeeds and manipulations by people in power, stretching back years - even if I take your premise that it's wrong, this is just yet one more event (if a notable acceleration). I sincerely believe that a few more gray hoodies might actually send things back in the right direction and bring the owner class back to the negotiating table. As it stands (and ~equally true two weeks ago), the social contract in this country is in tatters. The rich get everything, everyone else - nothing, not even the healthcare we already frickin bought.
Laws are not virtuous by default, is it a moral judgment against killing itself here, or is the problem that it was not a legal act? Of course don't let me reduce your position to one of my own two phrasings lol, but I am curious about the specific objection you have.
I really appreciate your perspective. It definitely helped me feel better about how hostile the rest of the responses have been.
I do already share that same thinking that it has been pushed too far long ago, though slowly to an extent.
I guess I have trouble wrestling with how far of a distance there is between the CEOs actions and their effects having caused deaths of many. It seems that the logic of that makes obvious sense, but there's so many steps in between that it also seems so different from direct murder. Because of that distance of actions is what I feel makes it murder.
If we don't consider this a murder and then continue that logic, at what point of involvement with the company does it stop and then become murder?
Still, I feel like this action, that I still feel is very wrong, is starting to give the people more power and the voice we should have had all along. So the results of this have seemed to benefit the people who have been victims of the predatory health insurance system.
I personally don't ever want to feel good about killing another person. Even if justified. That just seems wrong.
Well, I can understand your point of view without sharing it. As for the hostility, beyond most folks just following whatever up/downvoting they see taking place already, there's a critical element here that shouldn't be missed - the positive response has been largely bipartisan, which is rare and valuable. And not only is it bipartisan, it points out an important truth which any resident of this country would do well to keep in mind -
At this stage of the game, we might be a hair's breadth from realizing that it hasn't been Democrats vs. Republicans for a long time, it's just all of us regular folks vs the abusive rich (+their enablers).
I'm reaching here, but if other people feel that way, I can imagine wanting to discourage anything that takes away from a sudden (much needed) feeling of unity.
I'm just concerned about the lack of acknowledgement that this was a murder and the glorification of killing. Like I said before, I don't see why we can't feel good about what this has accomplished so far while also acknowledging that murder and killing is bad. It just seems like a mindless mob rather than a rally behind an ideology backed with logic.
That's a consistent and reasonable take. Mob violence can be unpredictable and harmful to its own causes. I'm certainly willing to call it murder myself, while also being glad for it. And I condemn going after the person who called in the tip, for many reasons, but succinctly - that person cannot possibly bear enough responsibility for the state of things, even acknowledging the actions they sure didn't have to take, to be an appropriate target of anything like what happened to Brian Thompson.
...bad act? ...bad for? ...bad (subjective terms of meaning)?
I'll just absolutely discard any respect for any sense of absolute reference by use of calling something any kind of pure wrongness in being conducted.
Let's get down some subjective good, shall we?
The murder of this tyrannical hand of neglecting fucks given "repsect" over the handling of the life of those who gave him trust with the means to continue their life's necessary tools withheld in exchange for the collection of management sheets, Talismen, the Dollar, $$, of dispensation which were granted trust by the many within his hand being denied in distribution. Greed at best being the reason but more truthfully, murder en mayhem is his act to thieve all value granted said tools of governmente, Mind Control.
So then, describe to me any means other than the burning of the trust within the paper as we see the trust will be culled into the hands of yet another who will do no more mind of care for the lives given the sheets trust.
In short, either we eat the rich or burn the dollar. You pick or go be a voluntary slave again.
There is nothing outside this trinary of choice in hand. The murder, you are correct, will not remove us from subjugation whilst syphoning all to the return of value to the people as well when we respect an actor in position of responsibility given trust for lies telling us to drink his piss being an act of value.
They still drink his piss and believe the lie that crack cocaine wasn't a trick flipping blame to point any trigger at any people instead of money itself. Crack cocaine and every other drugs was a trick and a lie that you cannot trust yourself to do as you will regardless of consequences.
This surrender to the will by the Talisman, the $$, and the invocation of the two 16 cards invoked a bit over two decades ago, will not but union your subjugation to and with and to willness existence.
In short, murder is pointless but for a tyrannical's method of signing your acceptance of slavery being the only righteous means of correct choice with what little you have left these days.
Burn the dollar like Heath Ledger or you will wish your slavery was as kind as the horrible folks of the south given to stolen people.
Apologies that I've written over your comprehension. Drugs are a pretty weak insult made. If you were at all correct or understood a single real thing about them you would be able to make your insult with any kind of accuracy but as anyone capable of seeing the truth, you're likely scared shitless. Learn magick or succumb to this acceptance of your entire reality being defined by some three letter definition's chalk scraping on your brain.
Help at...? Where exactly to you give up your specificity necessary for your counter to be an accepted reality before your acknowledgment that this frightening denial of the reality's invokation was not read by me. The hint is that is it not I who has evoked he "IA! FTHAGN!". That you're clearly recognizing. Wake the fuck up, child. Or you will become part of that cult destroying all of earth. Cthulhu will wipe you all off and from of your physical existence to boot!
If you're at actually familiar with the recent acknowledgement of the L's work being on the flipside of Mother's life today than he depicted the side of then you may realize that the cultures aren't nephandi's. The technocratic are. Shoot this in your log and watch what happens to me! Especially bite where I've called the memberance.
If its a yes or no question "Do you think Brian Johnson should have been killed?" My answer is No.
If you ask me "on a scale of 1 to 10 how much do you care about Brian Johnson being killed?" I'm going to ask if I can use decimal points because a 1 isnt low enough.
I can simultaniously not advocate for people murdering other people over their ideals and really not be too distraught when someone who pretty clearly has some sort of karmic retribution due gets their comeuppance.
But when someone is responsible for thousands of deaths and will continue to willingly kill for money, is taking them out justifiable?
If the CEO had been firing a weapon into a crowd, there's no question that killing him would have been justified. Is the fact that he killed with memos and board meetings rather than a gun actually relevant?
You're right. What he did is murder and it's the job of the justice system to find him and convict him. I wouldn't feel bad if he wasn't caught, but it's still probably the right thing to do.
I don't seriously think that normalizing the murder of CEOs is going to fix things anyways, and it's not a democratic way of dealing with the problem.
The rose-colored glasses you're wearing must have really thick lenses.
Anyone who thinks that this one act will change anything is out of their minds.
Giant corporations exist to make money to satisfy the shareholders and pay those at the top exorbitant paychecks. They don't give the first flying fuck about their employees or customers, and this one act isn't going to change a damn thing.
We all wish it will, but I'm sorry to say, but it won't.
So you're seriously gonna tell the police to put their guns down while a dude breaks into your home and kills your family? Or are you just morally grandstanding right now
War is mass murder, we just feel uncomfortable saying that so we're bullshitted into saying "it's not murder... It's war!" War being that thing where old men send young men to murder one another to either increase or retain their power.
Historically, murder solves shit, sorry. If the long arm of history truly does bend towards justice, thank murder, because the times passivism effected significant change are few and far between historically speaking. Sometimes the powerful goes too far in their decadence, they have, they limit the peasant's non-violent options, they have, and the alternative to violence is subjecting your kids and their kids to the very same cruelty.
Sometimes enough is enough. Peasants were murdered yesterday, are today, will be tomorrow in the name of profit.
It being sanctioned by our captured state doesn't make it not murder. Moreover it's not just murder, it's a one sided, ongoing slaughter for profit.
Luigi's single murder merely put a new spotlight on what some of us already knew for the rest. May all of us be judged by how we react to that spotlight. The ones calling it wrong and evil end of story responding "turn off that spotlight so we can go back to pretending our society isn't fucked right now."
I absolutely cannot support murder in any form, even when it comes from a billion dollar healthcare company.
it states your opinion clearly, and sets the boundary that nobody is exempt.
the way you phrased it and how it was perceived are as follows
I don't support murder of any kind. but there was no reason to kill the man who expanded and supported medical tribunals that effectively led to the death of tens of thousands of American's last year. murder is not the answer. now let's talk about this like civilized people like we've been doing for the last 100 years and hope that something changes.
do you see the differences?
the second time around you set your boundary of, "murder bad". but then move the goal posts in support of continuing the status quo that got us to this point because his company is murdering thousands of its customers.
I learned that I fully support murder, condone it, and even encourage it, with a lot of guardrails. Murdering despots is just fine by me, and history demonstrably shows where it's made things better for humanity, repeatedly.
It's fine to differ in opinion, and I hope people can be kind to you for standing by your personal convictions.