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In my time in HN I have seen numerous people advocate for the following * ending all covid measures to achieve herd immunity, accepting that this condemns hund
by UncleMeat 6mo ago
In my time in HN I have seen numerous people advocate for the following
* ending all covid measures to achieve herd immunity, accepting that this condemns hundreds of thousands or even millions to die
* ending foreign aid that goes to tuberculosis treatments, condemning hundreds of thousands or even millions to die of a treatable disease
* accepting the deaths of iranian, palestinian, or israeli children as collateral damage because of the evils of their governments
Or go read any thread involving the Jordan Neely story.
Somehow it is vastly more evil when violence is acute and focused at a single wealthy person.
- Natfan 6mo agoa single wealthy white male person
- UncleMeat 6mo agoYep. Tons of comments here justifying the murder of Jordan Neely when that happened,
- tasuki 6mo agoFirst time I hear about that, reading the Wikipedia page it very much doesn't sound like murder: the victim was threatening people on the train with killing them, specifically also a mother with a stroller. The aggressor applied what they were taught as a non lethal hold. Why a person died during a supposedly non lethal hold definitely needs to be investigated very thoroughly. Either it wasn't non lethal, was applied the wrong way, or there were some other contributing factors.
- UncleMeat 6mo agoYikes. That choke hold was vastly vastly vastly more dangerous than what happened to Altman here. "Scary people on the subway deserve to be put at extreme risk of death" is what I'm talking about. Somehow that violence doesn't bring out the "violence is never the answer" crowd.
- snark_attack 6mo ago[dead]