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The assassination of United Healthcare's CEO is a real life trolley problem, and a select few are trying to argue to save all lives while the train is going to kill the masses. (lemmy.world)
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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 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Voting works, when people actually do it. It doesn't work fast, but it works better than random killings.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 14 points 3 weeks ago

And in the mean time while you go around shaming people for not voting endless human suffering will continue to happen because you think vigilante justice to right the wrongs in our society is more wrong than just letting the elites continue to stamp on the necks of the people.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 weeks ago

Random?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Voting works, when people actually do it.

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