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112 points

Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.

Or, and hear me out here, we can view this with a little sympathy: there’s $60k in rewards for anyone who turned this guy in, and the person who did it makes peanuts at McDonalds.

Now, I don’t know if I would do it, but I can completely and utterly sympathize why someone who makes poverty wages would turn class traitor for what almost certainly life-changing money.

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97 points

Well then this person is a moron. They won’t see a dime. Maybe a pat on the head and a gift card from the dollar store.

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49 points

Employee of the Month

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With the review bombing and public hatred of that McDonald’s location? Fired is more like it.

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They’ll let him order anything he wants off the dollar menu!

Which is really just a pack of fries, minus the fries at this point, becaues what store has a dollar menu anymore?

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No way the average person working at Mcdonalds does anything but blow 60k even if they get it.

Edit: To be clear, I spent 4 years working at one. Good people, bad people, but not much economic sophistication in either group.

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2 points

Yeah, the fucking idiot will probably all blow it on something stupid like an ER visit.

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51 points

I don’t. Might as well just be a cop if you think like that, plenty of room for bootlicking morons in that profession.

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Here here. I’m poor as shit, got no insurance whatsoever, 60k would be somewhat life changing for me. I would never ever squeal on a comrade like that, even for millions.

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12 points

Find out finds everyone

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5 points

Neat how that works. Keep the populace poor and they become a wall to wall surveillance system for you. And people worry about technology…

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3 points

Off-topic question: are rewards money taxable?

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5 points

There’s no reason for them not to be treated like any other income.

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2 points

If I remember correctly, they can be anonymous. If that’s the case, they wouldn’t really be easily taxable. Still, we are talking about the government here, and if they tax lottery winnings, I would bet they tax rewards.

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-22 points

The downvotes on this really make me question my faith in humanity.

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-59 points

Only the downvotes?

What about the cheering on of murder in the street?

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44 points

To be charitable, other people can have different views on ethics.

For example, if harming a CEO who helped raise claim denial rates from less than 10% to 30% results in revised policies and less overall suffering, that could be morally justifable to some.

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29 points

Vigilante justice indicates a failure in the system to administer justice.

It is absolutely in society’s interest that someone who has caused deaths and misery of thousands is punished.

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28 points

What about the cheering on of murder in the street?

Nah, that rich fuck had it coming, shooter is a hero.

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22 points

We have a president who says that he could do exactly what The Adjuster did, and get away with it. If the president can do it, why not this guy?

I don’t like it, but this is our world right now.

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I guess people are saying that they believe there is such a thing as an ethical murder in the streets. Of course in any form of ethics vacuum chamber this can’t stand. But in the real world where children are bombed for the sake of some asshole’s religion, where the president boasts he could get away with murder in the street and courts confirm this, in a world where sick people are left to suffer to boost a share price, then, THEN an act like this becomes a reasonable response to an unreasonable world.

Maybe someone better educated can tell me what ethics scholars have to say about how an ethical actor should behave in a system where ethics have utterly broken down. Right now, the crowd is saying “like that guy.”

I’m ill-disposed to wag my finger at them, and think the only ethical course is to address the corrupt environment in which this act occurred, because that environment undermines any one-dimensional ethical evaluation of this murder in the street, and that makes me deeply uncomfortable.

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The comment I replied to wasn’t cheering on a murderer.

The comment I replied to was trying to convey that an impoverished person may feel like the reward money for turning in a murderer outweighs any moralizing over the murder itself. That the dollar figure could be literally life changing and they may feel they have no option but to turn them in.

And people downvoted that. Hence my shaken faith in people’s ability to empathize.

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shooter and ceo were closer in class than the shooter and working class

Ah, good ol’ “anyone who makes enough money to pay rent is part of the capitalist class, not the working class”

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Some people think anyone whose parents actually owned a house are “the elites”.

No. The CEO earned more in a year than even someone with a six figure salary would earn in a lifetime.

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I dunno. I’ve never met the narc, and I already don’t feel like he’s on my side.

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