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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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[โ€“] rational_lib@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Killing a CEO is still doing nothing about the deaths caused by the insurance industry. How would it save lives of people harmed by privatized healthcare? If anything, it makes that anti-private-healthcare crowd look like a bunch of murderous zealots and will drive away any sympathy, making the problem worse. See: effect on indian raids on views of Native American rights, effect of Hamas attacks on views regarding Palestine, etc.

This is more like you let the train go and kill 5 people, or you pull the lever and kill one person, but that track loops back around onto the same track and kills the 5 people anyway, and then keeps going and kills 5 more people just tied on the part of the track the train already passed.

Let's be real, many would pull the lever anyway because they just want to feel like they did something about it.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If it goes off the rails, yeah I agree with you -- it's gonna turn the CEO assassins into a group of murderous zealots.

If it's used sparingly and effectively, well.... uh, didn't the IRA boost Sinn Fein's popularity which led to the Good Friday agreement?