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Brian Thompson killed more people than Luigi.


No, he didn’t. Not by any logic that doesn’t also implicate every other executive, employee, vendor, and customer of every health insurance company, plus a huge number of other industries. To the point where the blame is so diffuse that it’s a pointless exercise.

Edit since I can’t reply: if “murderer” means someone who takes actions that have nth-order effects of someone dying, with no reasonable or discernible limit on n, then we’re all murderers and the term means nothing.


Luigi should just done something that caused each of their executives to lose 10 years off their lifespan without actually killing them. Then he would have gotten rid of an entire lifetime but because it’s spread out, you couldn’t call him a murderer.


No, that's stupid too. Insurance companies pay for things that extend life. They don't shorten life. That would be things like tobacco companies. And even then, it's actually the customers of tobacco companies that do it.


The CEO is the leader and should be the one pointed at when companies cause harm.


So let's hold him accountable for the illegal things he did!

Oh wait, he didn't break any laws? Hmm...well, fuck the idea of having a legal system I guess, let's just cheer every vigilante who decides to murder people in the street based on their own feelings. I'm sure that'll work out well.


Don't put words in my mouth.


Then make an actual contribution to the discussion beyond a shallow platitude.


Here's one: kill yourself.


"It does not make sense to call him a murderer because then there would be a ton of murderers."

???


> Brian Thompson killed more people than Luigi.

This is the same talk that saw people turn a blind eye to all the horror in history. You invent a fake story that casts someone (Jews in Nazi Germany, the middle class in Soviet Russia, whatever it is) as worthy of death, and then you do everything you can to excuse the behaviour of their murderers.


Isn’t it good practice to call them an alleged victim as long as the suspect, Luigi Nicholas Mangione, hasn’t been convicted?


Didn't he plead guilty?


He did. I live in a legislation where pledges aren’t a thing, so TIL that a pledge is equivalent to a conviction.


He was a casualty, not a victim.




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