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.
The patterns of behavior between shareholders, boards of directors, and executives is what’s killing people. The same role can be re-cast with different actors.
It’s not that CEOs need to die, it’s that that larger pattern of behavior that gets rich by killing people needs to end. Maybe this spooks other people who are part of that larger pattern into stopping, maybe it makes them do it more, stealthier, and with bodyguards. It’s hard to say.
At the very least, we should all jump at every chance to help things without hurting anybody, wherever we do find it. “Necessary violence” comes with a big ol heap of plausible deniability, and it’s a pretty big ask for somebody to handle it responsibly.
The justification will be alluring even in circumstances where it is not legitimate.
Sooooo… the target space has expanded?
At least the population of sociopaths would decline.
Honestly these companies need to see this as a warning. They are actively toying with the worlds most well-armed population. This was inevitable. Watch them push gun control even harder now.
Do I really need to explain that not voting and believing you can always just shoot your way to a more equitable society is exactly what those in power want? As long as a third of society stays home and the third with the most guns keeps voting for more hellhole, we’re all fucked.
That’s why we’re stuck in this capitalist meat grinder to begin with.
But they do.
You may think it doesn’t need to be done like this, but it seems many do
as a society we can do two things