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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I love this "greater good" end-run-around the law that we follow as members of society; like premeditated murder of a soulless CEO is somehow okay.
How is ambushing ever not weak and cowardly? Swords at dawn if you're going to make it personal.
This is not how we solve this. Killers are tried and punished in accordance with laws we all agree on, here.
What you're missing, I think, is that ambushing isn't weak or cowardly. It's just setting up the most favorable conditions for the "fight" as possible.
If you're engaging in an unbalanced war, and anyone targeting a rich target would be since the ability to hire security means you'll be going against superior numbers from the beginning, you use the tactics available to you.
You may or may not agree that it's a war. You might not agree that the shooter is justified. But the shooter most likely is at war in their mind, or (assuming it is part of things) someone that hired them does.
We aren't allowed to duel, and someone challenged to one has no obligation to agree to it. You can't usually even make the challenge without running into legal barriers. You send a letter to someone saying "hey, let's have a sword fight", expect a knock on your door. It simply isn't an option. You can't even arrange trial by champions, where you would face off against a chosen opponent and the other person would be bound by the outcome.
Again, regardless of whether or not you agree or like it, class warfare can be literal, at least in the minds of the people willing to wage such a war. Further, when one person uses their weapons to cause death and misery to non combatants, you can't be surprised when those non combatants find weapons of their own and fight back any way they can.
That's the thing you're missing. From the state of mind of the populace, the CEO I question has a track record of causing death and misery by using the weapons of wealth and power. This means that the question isn't one of peace time, it's a question, for that frame of mind, of using the best tactics to achieve a goal.
Like it or not, the shooter achieved the goal of disrupting the machinery of that company, at least temporarily. They achieved the goal of making it known that wealth is not bulletproof, which is a very strong idea when the populace feels disempowered. That isn't cowardice, that's just good tactics. It may or may not end up being good strategy, but only time can show that.
If people are in a state of war, and I promise you that a shit ton of people do view the current assault on humanity by financial means as war, then ambush is a perfect tool for asymmetric warfare. It's a tool to magnify your forces.