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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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[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago

It only took a couple more civil wars, thousands of political arbitrary executions, 2 empiralist dictatorships and 2 monarchies to get a stable democracy about a century later.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Time to get started then.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Yup. Better take the long view.

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

Semi-stable based on recent events.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

Unstable government but still functioning as intended, no one has a clear majority in the parlement so a government who doesn't talk to everyone is going to get trashed and that's what happened. This was very democratic.

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

The US doesn't have a parliament. Neither party talks to everyone. There are women and ethnic minorities in Congress, which is definitely not what was originally intended.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

This thread is about France, so I was talking about the current French situation.

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