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I was working on a house for this retired lawyer this week. At dinner he was talking about how hard it was to find Healthcare a while ago because his wife had cancer and he had heart issues. He was talking about the thousands he had to pay then and also talking about trying to pay for Healthcare for everyone at his practice and how horribly expensive that was and how he had to eventually drop it. The very next day I walk by the living room and the news is reporting on Luigi, and his comment was "I wish they would just take him outside and shoot him, but they won't do that will they"
The disconnect, even for someone so smart, is real
A lot of people really do just absorb whatever first piece of information they get, often from TV, and then never ever question it. If you push them about it, they'll even defend it.
Most people cannot give more than two reasons why they think or believe a certain thing. They literally stop at the first thing they think of and don't explore it any further.
I'm failing to see the disconnect. Someone can want healthcare reform in the US without supporting cold-blooded murder lol.
You think the man is just against "cold-blood" murder and in the same time advocates for shooting Mangione right on the spot? Funny..
The disconnect is right here on Lemmy...
I mean, the guy did plead guilty lol.
I totally get where you're coming from, but let me play devils advocate: when their policy is to deny and dispose which results in the death of so many people, ruins the livelihoods of so many people. When we know the majority support universal Healthcare and we know it would save the lives of like 172000 people every year. The ceo may not kill people with a gun, but he is killing with the pen. When they make decisions that they know will kill people but will also raise the stock price, then what is justified?
Social murder is what you're describing. Through policy, red tape, and just wealth inequality people die who didn't have to.
I don't disagree with you at all. I think the corporate class ought to be held responsible. However, I'm not a fan of individuals being the judge, jury, and executioner. Part of the power of the Nuremberg trials, for example, was the exposing of evil and proving the individuals were tied to it. It would've been quite different had the Allied forces simple shot the Nazi leaders dead without any sort of trial.
Well, one of them is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, the other is only responsible for one.