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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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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Well sure, if we just kill everyone we don't like, clearly things will magically get better.

How do we define that, though? Cause every decision made will make someone unhappy, no matter how much good it might do. Are you going to step up and decide what's right or wrong?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Already have. I think killing CEOs who contribute to endless human suffering is right, and defending those people from those who’s lives they’ve ruined unjustly is wrong. Next question.

[–] Hobbes@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. It's pretty simple and straightforward.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago

kill everyone we don't like

Kill people who purposefully, pointedly, and knowingly cause harm, human suffering, and sign death warrants for people who could have otherwise survived. Robbing life and money from families whose kids or parents need treatment, and sending these people into bankruptcy. Or straight-up denying life-saving treatments.

And these people know they're killing people, but they don't care because they're making so much money off of it.

So no. It's not "everyone we don't like." It's people who purposefully profit from doing harm at the cost of human lives.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This isn't a "Is killing a person that insulted you right or wrong?" moral conundrum, it's a "If you could kill Hitler after he had started exterminating people, would that be right or wrong?" moral conundrum.

Most people who would say "it's the wrong thing to do" for the first one would say "it's the right thing to do" for the second.

Mind you, the really right thing to do on the situation with this CEO would have been for the State to do its fucking job and protect the people from mass murderers like him, but it refuse to do so, hence here we are in a bad situation.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 8 points 2 weeks ago

EXACTLY. These guys are trying to pose this conundrum in such a ridiculous disingenuous way. Like “if we allow someone to kill a person who has systemically killed untold numbers of people then what’s next, killing a baby?!” its absolutely baffling how these people think that’s an argument based in any level of reality or logic.

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It was a bit messy for the French but they haven’t had a king since.