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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. (lemmy.world)
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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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[-] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This isn't a trolley problem. Killing CEOs is not going to save any more lives or "fix the system" in any way.

There's no guarantee that the new CEO will be better or worse, and if they feel threatened enough they'll just hire security.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

The secret service can't even be 100% effective, and most would be assassins have been remarkably incompetent. Trump still got hit.

[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

That fat sack of trash did not get hit by a bullet.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

It was ketchup on his hands!

[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

That's more believable than the pageantry we witnessed.

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