Yeah… I can’t blame them, the apathy is real on this one, lots of people get murdered everyday, they don’t get this coverage, I don’t care more because this guy was a rich CEO, feels like the media is overhyping it because the rich are scared that some folks are deciding they need to water the tree of liberty. Pretty sure this is only going to get worse as people get squeezed more and more.
I’m not blanket saying assassination is ok, but I’m also not saying I couldn’t consider voting to acquit this guy for jury nullification purposes if I were on the jury.
It’s not even apathy for a lot of people. It’s jubilation that someone whose wealth directly came from making others’ lives shorter and more miserable got his life shortened.
There was a shower thought the other day on Lemmy that said that the whole situation is a real life trolley problem.
Why’d you link Wikipedia and not the post? Lol
Because if you already know the trolley problem, you already know the whole content of the post. If you don’t, now you do.
Did I mix them up? In case somebody didn’t know what the trolley problem was, I figured i’d link to that, but got to my bus stop before I could find the original shower thought. I still haven’t figured out how to find stuff in Lemmy.
Honestly, the more coverage of this the better. Let’s set the president that bad CEO decisions might result in your death.
This quote from his wife is so selfawarewolf:
“Brian was an incredibly loving, generous, talented man who truly lived life to the fullest and touched so many lives.”
Yeah, that’s kinda the problem lol
incredibly loving, generous, talented
God she’s brainwashed by him
No, I believe it. The problem with capitalists isn’t that they have no empathy; most of them do. They just define very narrowly who that empathy applies to, and mostly that narrow line is drawn right around their immediate vicinity. He was probably great to those in his orbit. He just didn’t see his customers as human.
I recall reading or hearing something a number of years ago that basically said a human is only capable of really caring about a small number of people (single digits) and generally caring about a slightly larger number. Anyone outside of those circles is an NPC
True. But that doesn’t excuse someone’s decisions when they are presented with the consequences of their actions. Even if it doesn’t affect anyone you know, you can still make moral decisions about how to treat them.
Can’t even imagine the life insurance policy check she’s about to receive.
Nor can we grasp the depth of how big it is.
He denied coverage to my daughter. If I personally knew who the working class hero was, I would send him a gift or a thankyou card.
I had UHC but I’m generally healthy so I either had no claims or none denied, but I’ll still contribute to his legal defense.
New York City experiences hundreds of murders annually. The real question is whether the NYPD will dedicate an equal amount of resources and effort towards solving the murder of a CEO compared to other homicides. Does the life of a wealthy individual hold more importance than those of ordinary citizens?
“No we won’t and yes it does”
-Shitheeled pigs of New York
Cause no one really feels bad about a terrible person dying? I’m not surprised.
You mean like how they found the Boston Marathon bomber?
Ahhh real reddit momenttm
Flood tip lines with bullshit tips
Won’t somebody think of the poor CEO’s?!
Think of their what?
you know you can help by explaining the error after your remark, right?
Won’t somebody think of the poor CEO’s?!
you probably meant “CEOs” as in referring to the plural of “CEO”. when you use “CEO’s”, you are using a possessive form to refer to a CEO as in “CEO’s lack of dignity” or “a CEO’s rolling head”
I was gonna downvote but then I saw your choice of examples.
I can’t help but feel like these influencers typically fill a role that isn’t getting fulfilled, like investigating mysteries or things that fall off the police radar or weren’t getting any attention. I very much doubt that a wealthy white man would be a typical subject in the first place.
Though, I’m not really familiar with this genre of the Internet.
things that fall off the police radar or weren’t getting any attention
Think of all the murders that happen in large American cities that don’t get anywhere near the police attention as this one.
