This thread is refreshing. The healthcare system needs to be completely reworked but killing executives isn't gonna do it. They'll replace him, set up security services, and change absolutely zero features of their business.

I'm arguing that death squads of one v one are like death squads of fifty v one.

That is not a country that I want to live in. That country, the death squad country, will kill more than thousands.

But whatever, OP. It is just one must actually occupy the moral high ground to claim it. And assassination is not a moral choice. But you do have a funny picture.

Haha.

This is brutally flawed and simplistic thinking that doesn't survive real world scrutiny.

First of all, it is not a trolley problem because killing one CEO doesn't change anything, and you're not about to start a big enough wave of CEO killing to make a difference. He will be replaced with a different CEO, who will be just as greedy, who will now expense bodyguards and charge them back to your copays.

Secondly, we still don't know why he was killed. Have you considered that this could literally just be a case of corporate espionage and assassination for money? Even if he was killed by a disgruntled patient, that doesn't mean that patient did it on their own vs having their grief taken advantage of and manipulated by a corporate rival.

Thirdly, I really can't express how much this isn't a trolley problem given that you also literally saved zero lives by doing this. Really feels like you don't understand what the trolley problem is at a fundamental level.

It's just poor taste to comment on someone's personal tragedy that has nothing to do with anon, more so gloating as if that event is instigating real reform and anon adding their precious opinions is a necessary part of the public discourse or whatever. It's not a trolley problem because anon can realize they don't have to give their two cents on every news item (the processing costs are higher these days) and that's the equivalent of "there's no trolley"

This is the most Lemmy ass thread imaginable. A bunch of terminally online tech geeks going philosophy 101 to boost their own ego, by attaching themselves to someone who is and was willing to actually do something.

No

Killing the evil fuck doesn't save any lives. The board (?) still had the meeting he was on his way to and they are still going to continue to deny basic human rights to the people who pay them for it.

The reality is that this is just yet another sign of immaturity and arrested development. I forget where I first heard it but... folk been watching WAY too much Steven Universe and similar warm and cozy shit. They think that by always taking the high road they are better people and the world will be a better place because if you do the right thing everyone else will.

When the reality is that people like the dead fuck prey on naivety like that.

If we ever find out who did it we are sure to find out they are also a pretty monstrous person. But, as satisfying as this has been, it changes nothing.