Luigi Mangione, who is charged with first-degree murder in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, made the comments on a website set up by his defense.
The downvote button is just a “I disagree” button. By saying you don’t want people to downvote you, you’re saying you don’t want people to disagree with you.
now you’re adding insults to the mix. Well done.
That’s a bit passive aggressive innit? I don’t think that was close to an insult.
you’re not encouraging people to share their thoughts
I think Luigi’s (theoretical) actions are the opposite of excusing the inexcusable. Murdering thousands a year for profit is inexcusable and should be stopped immediately. If that takes the death of the person orchestrating the murders, so be it. I see it as indirect self defense that’s just more controversial than direct self defense.
The CEO chose to kill people and accepted the risks that come with it.
First, to re-clarify, I don’t care about the downvotes myself. I’m a pretty resilient person, that won’t be enough to shut me up, which is apparently what you all want. I do care about the effect of the downvotes, which is to announce to everyone browsing this “discussion” that there’s a mob out, and you better say the right thing or else.
And I absolutely care about what so many people are doing here, which is to excuse murder and to normalize political violence. That’s because murder is inexcusable, period.
As if it matters, I also think that the abuses of the US healthcare system are also inexcusable. And therefore I’m not excusing them. To be glib, two wrongs do not make a right.
The downvote button is just a “I disagree” button. By saying you don’t want people to downvote you, you’re saying you don’t want people to disagree with you.
That’s a bit passive aggressive innit? I don’t think that was close to an insult.
this is !upliftingnews@lemmy.world, not !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world.
I think Luigi’s (theoretical) actions are the opposite of excusing the inexcusable. Murdering thousands a year for profit is inexcusable and should be stopped immediately. If that takes the death of the person orchestrating the murders, so be it. I see it as indirect self defense that’s just more controversial than direct self defense.
The CEO chose to kill people and accepted the risks that come with it.
I doubt that.
First, to re-clarify, I don’t care about the downvotes myself. I’m a pretty resilient person, that won’t be enough to shut me up, which is apparently what you all want. I do care about the effect of the downvotes, which is to announce to everyone browsing this “discussion” that there’s a mob out, and you better say the right thing or else.
And I absolutely care about what so many people are doing here, which is to excuse murder and to normalize political violence. That’s because murder is inexcusable, period.
As if it matters, I also think that the abuses of the US healthcare system are also inexcusable. And therefore I’m not excusing them. To be glib, two wrongs do not make a right.