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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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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 44 points 2 weeks ago (44 children)

Things might change if murdering the CEOs of every company that puts evil into the system becomes the standard in America. But one outlier incident won’t change anything.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

G4S and Securitas will make a fortune off security services for execs.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 weeks ago

Knowing their hiring standards it sounds like a job there would be a ridiculously easy way to get privileged access to these people. Nah they'll use higher quality than that.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Invest now! Wooooo, capitalism baby!

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but are other rich people staffing this corpos or just more plebs???

Asking for friend ;)

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes, it'll change things like the French Revolution did, where it kept going and going, executing more and more people who had less and less to do with it, finishing with Robespierre, who argued against executing people at all.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When the laws don't apply anymore, the law of the jungle will catch up to you.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean the law of the strong against the weak? We're not winning that battle. We can't even agree to vote consistently, much less in our best interest. What makes you think we can all agree on who's the right person that needs killing?

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

I never said the right people are going to get killed. People are just going to get killed in chaos, sometimes its aligns with the goals of others. This sucks.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, we can't afford to lose any CEOs because it might cause innocent people to be killed. Meanwhile those CEOs are stacking bodies through negligence and folks like you want to defend them. You just confirmed how you'd steer the trolley.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

CEOs are already killing innocent people en mass. If you have a more effective way of doing things at this point I’m all ears.

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