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Who then get removed from society
Depends how many dice you roll. That's my point. If you roll enough dice, it can start affecting decisions.
This is ludicrous. A person faced with unpopular decisions that might send assassins after him is going to make himself harder to assassinate, not less hated.
So you're saying that, given a choice between
You'd take the 2nd choice and hire bodyguards. Sure, you might. But not everybody would.
They're being intentionally dense. But we understand your point. Some people were born to lick the boot. Let them stay dumb.
No, the question isn't whether everyone would. It's whether anyone would. And the answer is obviously yes.
So now the position is filled. Did the healthcare system change?
My argument is that no, you can't kill your way to reform on this one. There will always be another CEO to step into that place.
And the ratio of dead would-be assassins to CEOs would also pile more bodies on.
Next time you take a break from licking the boot, read a history book. Do you know how many corpses are in the ground today because a few folks said, "We shouldn't have to work seven days a week." A fucking lot.
Thanks to them, we have the concept of "weekends".
Change is written in blood.
This is not a one-off example, there are thousands.
That is reality. Welcome to it.
Which business leaders were killed on the way to securing a 5-day workweek? Those gains were achieved through direct action affecting business bottom lines: strikes, sabotage, and direct action on the streets, not secret targeting of soft targets.
Put another way: there were two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump in the past year. Do you think that will change his political actions to be more popular?
Do you think that United Healthcare's next CEO will suddenly forgo profits? What about hospital administrators, pharma CEOs, or any of the other tens of thousands profiting off of this fucked up system? Do you think that a mass assassination campaign will actually happen in large enough volume to change any behavior at all?