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Brian Thompson killed more people than Luigi.

by p_j_w 1mo ago

senordevnyc 1mo ago
No, he didn’t. Not by any logic that doesn’t also implicate every other executive, employee, vendor, and customer of every health insurance company, plus a huge number of other industries. To the point where the blame is so diffuse that it’s a pointless exercise. Edit since I can’t reply: if “murderer” means someone who takes actions that have nth-order effects of someone dying, with no reasonable or discernible limit on n, then we’re all murderers and the term means nothing.
- majewsky 1mo ago
  "It does not make sense to call him a murderer because then there would be a ton of murderers." ???
- lovich 1mo ago
  Luigi should just done something that caused each of their executives to lose 10 years off their lifespan without actually killing them. Then he would have gotten rid of an entire lifetime but because it’s spread out, you couldn’t call him a murderer.
  - philipallstar 1mo ago
    No, that's stupid too. Insurance companies pay for things that extend life. They don't shorten life. That would be things like tobacco companies. And even then, it's actually the customers of tobacco companies that do it.
- SkyeCA 1mo ago
  The CEO is the leader and should be the one pointed at when companies cause harm.
  - senordevnyc 1mo ago
    So let's hold him accountable for the illegal things he did! Oh wait, he didn't break any laws? Hmm...well, fuck the idea of having a legal system I guess, let's just cheer every vigilante who decides to murder people in the street based on their own feelings. I'm sure that'll work out well.
    - SkyeCA 1mo ago
      Don't put words in my mouth.
      - senordevnyc 1mo ago
        Then make an actual contribution to the discussion beyond a shallow platitude.
        SkyeCA 1mo ago
        Here's one: kill yourself.
philipallstar 1mo ago
> Brian Thompson killed more people than Luigi. This is the same talk that saw people turn a blind eye to all the horror in history. You invent a fake story that casts someone (Jews in Nazi Germany, the middle class in Soviet Russia, whatever it is) as worthy of death, and then you do everything you can to excuse the behaviour of their murderers.

Brian Thompson killed more people than Luigi.

by p_j_w 1mo ago

Brian Thompson killed more people than Luigi.

No, he didn’t. Not by any logic that doesn’t also implicate every other executive, employee, vendor, and customer of every health insurance company, plus a huge number of other industries. To the point where the blame is so diffuse that it’s a pointless exercise. Edit since I can’t reply: if “murderer” means someone who takes actions that have nth-order effects of someone dying, with no reasonable or discernible limit on n, then we’re all murderers and the term means nothing.

majewsky 1mo ago
"It does not make sense to call him a murderer because then there would be a ton of murderers." ???
lovich 1mo ago
Luigi should just done something that caused each of their executives to lose 10 years off their lifespan without actually killing them. Then he would have gotten rid of an entire lifetime but because it’s spread out, you couldn’t call him a murderer.
- philipallstar 1mo ago
  No, that's stupid too. Insurance companies pay for things that extend life. They don't shorten life. That would be things like tobacco companies. And even then, it's actually the customers of tobacco companies that do it.
SkyeCA 1mo ago
The CEO is the leader and should be the one pointed at when companies cause harm.
- senordevnyc 1mo ago
  So let's hold him accountable for the illegal things he did! Oh wait, he didn't break any laws? Hmm...well, fuck the idea of having a legal system I guess, let's just cheer every vigilante who decides to murder people in the street based on their own feelings. I'm sure that'll work out well.
  - SkyeCA 1mo ago
    Don't put words in my mouth.
    - senordevnyc 1mo ago
      Then make an actual contribution to the discussion beyond a shallow platitude.
      - SkyeCA 1mo ago
        Here's one: kill yourself.

philipallstar 1mo ago

> Brian Thompson killed more people than Luigi. This is the same talk that saw people turn a blind eye to all the horror in history. You invent a fake story that casts someone (Jews in Nazi Germany, the middle class in Soviet Russia, whatever it is) as worthy of death, and then you do everything you can to excuse the behaviour of their murderers.