It appears that in every thread about this event there is someone calling everyone else in the thread sick and twisted for not proclaiming that all lives are sacred and being for the death of one individual.

It really is a real life trolley problem because those individuals are not seeing the deaths caused by the insurance industry and not realizing that sitting back and doing nothing (i.e. not pulling the lever on the train track switch) doesn’t save lives…people are going to continue to die if nothing is done.

Taking a moral high ground and stating that all lives matter is still going to costs lives and instead of it being a few CEOs it will be thousands.

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They’ll pause to call up more private security to keep themselves safe while they raise your premiums even more.

A Christmas Carol was just a story, not reality. You’re not going to scare CEOs into doing the right thing, especially not with threat of death.

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Maybe. You seem to be very certain about how each of these individuals thinks, which is not a level of confidence I often reach with my own opinions.

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Well I guess we should just start killing people we don’t like just in case it makes the world a better place then, right?

Cause that seems to be the theme of your lack of confidence positions.

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Not at all. I said that now this has happened, the humans actually in charge of the decisions which inspired it might adjust their cost/benefit calculations. I didn’t say it was right, I said it’s understandable why people would celebrate it and I said there’s a chance it will have an actual impact.

I’ll leave you and your straw man to discuss further; you’ve got more of an argument with him than you do with me.

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More private security means more people in their vicinity with guns. Hope none of those people has a loved one murdered by these assholes. Statistically that seems unlikely, and finding good security will get harder if demand spikes that much.

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Would their security have good insurance? Cause otherwise that’s another potential gunner.

The rich are far more of a coward than your giving them credit to be. They are only so evil because of the lack of consequences, not in spite of.

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yes, which is why threats that are backed up with actions are far more persuasive.

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