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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Few billionaires are direct causes of anyone dying. However, they're always indirect causes of lots of people dying, by their own choice.

Is there a valuable difference between shooting somebody and poisoning the food and water of 10 random people? Maybe. Maybe not. Ultimately, you're choosing to take people's lives, knowing the outcome.

I don't think people care about whether you're a 'direct' cause, as much as they care about whether or not you're a deliberate cause.

All of us will probably cause some deaths as we go about our lives. But at no point do most of us make a decision to end someone's life. Whereas billionaires do make the decisions, and they do it completely voluntarily, seeking profit. They often seem happy about the decisions too.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And in the current case, did he cause any direct or indirect death? Did he chose to cause someone death?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends. What do you think about a suicide as a response from being laid off?

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hard to say. Suicides rarely have a single cause. A layoff can be a trigger, but you rarely kill yourself from that alone if you life a pretty decent life outside of work.

Usually I go with "you are responsible of your own actions and words, not what other do or says about it". So unless he personally pushed someone to suicide, or ordered someone to be bullied to the point of suicide, no, I don't think he'd be responsible.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The concept of "kill line" is incompatible with such a view point.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Care to explain? That's not something I heard about.