I figured this is the correct community to post to since UHC is a multi-national company but if this is more suited to US News I can move it.
finally, some good fucking news
I would normally be upset about something like this happening, and would never advocate for it. But then I think about how many lives this person is indirectly responsible for ruining and I feel less bad lol
At what point does indirectly become directly? I think whatās most important here is intent - this man was clearly knowledgeable enough to know he was causing harm and still chose to do so in order to increase shareholder profit. There is malice here no matter how you slice it.
If a person refuses to see whether they are causing harm even unintentionallyā¦ refuses to even tryā¦ thatās all that matters. Responsibility lies there when the person causes harm. Same for persons who are aware and are personally fine with causing harm for gain. On the other hand, seeing and personally trying to reduce it, a person can atone for harm caused by oneself. These things cannot be forced. Attempts to be fully aware and not cause harm only brings happiness to the one making such attempts in the end. The āpains of lifeā, which is the purpose for the concept of āescapesā to exist in the first place, go away completely. You could call such pains either the result of maliciousness or the naivety which aids people who want to cause harm.
This is a decision everyone can only make by themselves.
Careful.
You might get banned for being happy.
See Lemmy.world news and the resulting powertripping mods post https://lemmy.zip/post/27427367
oh golly why would anyone do such a thing
hereās a totally unrelated news article from about a year ago: UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
I canāt imagine being a billionaire CEO in this country, just walking around on the street, not expecting to get a bullet in my head. Tired of hearing people say Americans arenāt compassionate.
This is tragic. Nobody should be gunned down in the street like this. I expect the NYPD, the media, and the politicians to spend exactly as much time and resources on this horrific crime as they do for every other individual that has been murdered in NYC this year. Not a fucking minute of police work more, not one fucking dollar of resources more, not one fucking article more, not one fucking minute of airtime more than any other person.
This is tragic. Nobody should be gunned down in the street like this.
I agree. Which is why we should address the problem by dealing with the absolutely ghoulish situation that is American health care, profiteering, and late-stage capitalism writ large. If thereās one thing I am very happy about, it is the fact that the number one thing being talked about due to this ā besides the shooting itself ā is the problem that caused it and so many other deaths; not a preference for vigilante justice, not guns, not terrorists, but a desire for profit above all else, regardless of how many die from lack of care as a result.
To be clear, I suspect you agree, at least with the āghoulish situation that is American health careā part. But what I want to highlight here is that I donāt think almost anyone wants to live in a world where things like this happen, much less one where so many of us are happy about it. In the end, though, we donāt get a choice. We live in that world, and it is far more important for us to worry about fixing that than it is for us to wring our hands when one of the 1% dies while the millions heās killed got nowhere near as much sympathy.
Murder is obviously bad. Even when itās justified, it is a tragedy, and indicative of a failure to find a better solution. But this is a failure of the system people like Brian Thompson helped to create. On some other sites, I see a lot of people saying things like what youāve done here. They spend time focusing on how his death is tragic, prefacing anything else they wish to say with statements to that effect as though they were warding against a curse. Individually, I donāt find this to be a problem. But when a lot of people are doing it? I think thatās an insult to his victims.
Not a fucking minute of police work more, not one fucking dollar of resources more, not one fucking article more, not one fucking minute of airtime more than any other person.
Is this sarcasm? Iām going to assume this is sarcasm.
Iām dead serious. I oppose the misanthropic celebrations of someoneās killing. At the same I resent the classism of treating this particular killing as more important just because it is a rich person.
Iāve been thinking about this today. The chickens really are coming home to roost. The US military has spent decades dumping cash and assets into our media to convince young men that the best way to solve problems is to kill ābadā people. Weāre primed to celebrate death already. Even in the 19th century when Anarchists were going around killing people who literally hired private armies to gun down strikers, the public was generally unsympathetic to violent retribution. Nowadays violence is the standard even when itās visited upon the investing class that the military was established to serve. Americans see a bad person getting killed and weāre happy about it because we as a culture now believe that this is the way to solve problems. Considering that this is the public reaction, this could contribute to a solution where it wouldnāt in a more sane culture which would not have allowed a mass murderer like Thompson to kill thousands every year in the first place.
