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> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda? If you head a big cor

> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda? If you head a big corporation like say Exxon, and you sign off on lobbying efforts to reduce pollution regulations, deny climate change etc. which will inevitably kill thousands of people, all in the service of the CEOs political agenda, is that different somehow? Yet the police aren’t arresting those folks > In a lot of ways this is like all the media attention on school shootings: we will see copycats, and the next one may not be targeting an unsympathetic healthcare CEO I wonder if we dug into most CEOs of public companies if they’d be sympathetic. After all, they say psychopaths excel at two things, being CEOs or being serial killers. I suspect the skeletons in the closet are quite voluminous for many, many of these folks

Jensson 2y ago
> Yet the police aren’t arresting those folks Do you really want the police to take the law in their own hands and just start arresting people they don't like?
- no_wizard 2y ago
  Don’t like? I am talking about people that are in fact responsible for the death of thousands of people, you realize that is the result of the choices right?
- Teever 2y ago
  I'd be pretty content if legislative bodies passed laws that empowered prosecutors to actively go after white collar criminals with the same fervour that they went after people who grew some weed in the 90s. And of course I'd like to see law enforcement actually act on those powers, and the powers that they currently have to stop white collar crime from doing the kind of damage that it does to our society. This[0] is a good example of the kind of stuff that we should be excising from our society because the cost of not doing so is unchecked corruption that hoovers up resources that could be fixing all kinds of social ills that we both are worse off from. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/21/mormon-church-will-pay-millions-in-sec-settlement-over-investment-portfolio-allegedly-saving-for-second-coming-of-christ/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/21/mormon-...

Jensson 2y ago

> Yet the police aren’t arresting those folks Do you really want the police to take the law in their own hands and just start arresting people they don't like?

no_wizard 2y ago
Don’t like? I am talking about people that are in fact responsible for the death of thousands of people, you realize that is the result of the choices right?
Teever 2y ago
I'd be pretty content if legislative bodies passed laws that empowered prosecutors to actively go after white collar criminals with the same fervour that they went after people who grew some weed in the 90s. And of course I'd like to see law enforcement actually act on those powers, and the powers that they currently have to stop white collar crime from doing the kind of damage that it does to our society. This[0] is a good example of the kind of stuff that we should be excising from our society because the cost of not doing so is unchecked corruption that hoovers up resources that could be fixing all kinds of social ills that we both are worse off from. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/21/mormon-church-will-pay-millions-in-sec-settlement-over-investment-portfolio-allegedly-saving-for-second-coming-of-christ/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/21/mormon-...