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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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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s only if this becomes a trend and many rich people die.

Even then, it’s not a guarantee that the rich won’t manipulate the masses with scapegoating.

Just like with a lot of thought experiments, you have to assume people will react rationally, so far they have which is kind of rare.

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

AFAIK it is actually a trend in more oppressive countries like Russia. I do suspect this will be a rising trend in the US. Especially with the rise in gun violence. I mean heck it was only a few months ago there were several attempts on Trump's life.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But then, as you can see, media will try to paint the hero as a crazy/nazi/whatever bad person.

[–] D1G17AL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone who has half a brain is cheering this guy on.

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

But in Russia they like to defenestrate themselves

^Sorry I just really wanted to use that word in a sentence^