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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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[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, it goes further than that. They’re trying to paint a sympathetic portrait of this asshole talking about his family. Boo fucking hoo.

They killed my father, what about my family?

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i understand your frustration, that dog and others like him all deserve to die horrible death, don't be gaslit into thinking otherwise

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Let’s just keep dogs out of this they didn’t do nothing