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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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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They will adjust their cost/benefit analysis - of their personal security.

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Ah, so lack of solid opinion is your defense of your support of random killings. You don’t actually support it because you don’t support anything… but you don’t mind if someone else supports in just in case it might help you in the long run.

You’re a professional bystander, someone who hopes someone else does all the hard work in making your life easier.

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