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I think a lot of people are joking, a lot are serious, and a lot--like me--have very mixed feelings. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 11/12/2024 09:51:57 AM

Intellectually, I know that murdering people is wrong. Morally, I know that murdering people is wrong.

Emotionally, I confess to having a fairly serious degree of schadenfreude at seeing massive healthcare companies scrub their websites of identifying information, and I have been completely unable to muster up a degree of sympathy for a man who purposefully led a company into more and more evil practices. United Healthcare is infamous even among US insurance corporations for absurdly high rates of denying claims.

I don't think that its CEO deserved death--but that's far less because I think that he was innocent and far more because I don't believe in the death penalty.

EDIT: I can muster up a bit of sympathy. I'm sure it was very frightening to die alone on a cold city sidewalk. I do genuinely hope he suffered as little as possible.

"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel

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The following should be read in a Jeff Foxworthy voice damookster - 10/12/2024 02:39:22 PM 124 Views
The moral inversion of people who think that way is astounding. LiterateDog - 10/12/2024 03:44:15 PM 27 Views
Re: The moral inversion of people who think that way is astounding. damookster - 10/12/2024 04:57:28 PM 28 Views
I enjoy Scott Jennings a lot. The Shrike - 11/12/2024 12:33:02 PM 19 Views
Do you think there are many people who truly see Mangione as a hero? Legolas - 10/12/2024 05:34:17 PM 34 Views
Re: Do you think there are many people who truly see Mangione as a hero? damookster - 10/12/2024 05:56:31 PM 31 Views
The involvement of other passengers is precisely why I'd doubt the need to continue choking him. Legolas - 10/12/2024 07:18:27 PM 28 Views
Re: The involvement of other passengers is precisely why I'd doubt the need to continue choking him. damookster - 10/12/2024 07:38:53 PM 30 Views
That is not at all what I'm reading. Legolas - 10/12/2024 11:17:41 PM 29 Views
Re: That is not at all what I'm reading. damookster - 10/12/2024 11:40:41 PM 33 Views
I was kind of expecting to hear more from the experts you referred to. Legolas - 11/12/2024 12:24:56 AM 28 Views
Well he was acquitted. So apparently 12 people agreed more with me than you. damookster - 11/12/2024 12:51:51 AM 31 Views
12 people found that the state didn't meet its burden of proof. Ghavrel - 11/12/2024 09:48:00 AM 24 Views
Re: 12 people found that the state didn't meet its burden of proof. damookster - 11/12/2024 02:27:17 PM 25 Views
I'm pretty sure OJ killed Nichole, though *NM* aerocontrols - 11/12/2024 03:47:57 PM 8 Views
I think a lot of people are joking, a lot are serious, and a lot--like me--have very mixed feelings. Ghavrel - 11/12/2024 09:51:57 AM 30 Views
Re: very mixed feelings. damookster - 11/12/2024 02:47:45 PM 26 Views
Re: Do you think there are many people who truly see Mangione as a hero? aerocontrols - 11/12/2024 06:07:30 PM 21 Views
Oh, no! I might be a hypocrite! aerocontrols - 11/12/2024 04:11:05 PM 28 Views
Re: Oh, no! I might be a hypocrite! damookster - 11/12/2024 06:08:25 PM 25 Views
Here's the rub... entyti - 12/12/2024 03:22:27 PM 26 Views
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