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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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[–] moral_quandary@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

but it’s assumed that everyone involved is innocent.

The Wikipedia article for Trolley Problem states that there is a version called "The Fat Villain" so I think that fits here and is still a version of the trolley problem.

but one dead CEO isn’t going to do anything.

You are right about that. But if CEO deaths started matching school shooting numbers things would likely change.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fair enough, but that's a variation of a variation, and pretty obscure (I'd heard of the Fat Man variation, but not the Fat Villain).

But if CEO deaths started matching school shooting numbers things would likely change.

I mean, that's basically what I'm saying, but that's not really the Trolley Problem. That's basically the French Revolution. (And, again, should any law enforcement agents happen to read this, I'm definitely not trying to incite violence against the billionaire class, no matter how badly they deserve it or how much better the world would be for it).

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

1/20th of school shooting numbers and we will get it

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Gun laws would change