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suswous · 6 months ago

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Realistically speaking, killing a healthcare CEO doesn’t fix the greater systemic problems with American healthcare, and Brian Thompson isn’t (/wasn’t lol) solely responsible for American healthcare or even just UHC’s particularly bad policies, because there’s a whole apparatus in place, and that’s often why people who consider themselves moral can do what UHC execs do, because they feel diminished responsibility; to some extent trying to kill ppl responsible would lead to like a whackamole, and I do think that would be immoral; I don’t think it’s possible to kill your way into a better healthcare system, and ultimately this isn’t going to fix American healthcare, certainly not in the long term, it’s just an act of violence which isn’t a sustainable method of change and can often make things worse long-term.

On the other hand: LMAO

#was violence necessarily the solution here?#no #is it however cathartic?#I can’t say it isn’t #do I feel bad for Brian Thompson?#no not really #I do worry that esp. if the shooter is in a fragile mental state #there is a bit of hero worship and I hope that’s not a problem #like Idk his motivations and all but if this was a kinda like #‘going out with a bang—throwing my life out to do something worthwhile’ type thing #like what you get w/ a lot of self-immolations #of course in this case he’s alive and that’s a big key difference #I also don’t know if this like #specifically someone in his life was harmed by UHC or if this is just a like ‘oh generally this dude should die’#I guess *strictly speaking* neither’s necessarily ‘healthy’ but the latter seems worse to me for some reason and Idk why #either way I hope he gets support from his friends and family (whether they figure out he did it or not)#also there’s so much I’m curious about but I can’t know about it w/o him getting caught #which I’d rather not happen #also I think the fact that it’s UHC is important here #given that it’s like THE worst of the health insurance providers #so it’s not just like killing someone bcs they work in a deeply flawed industry—it’s someone you view as culpable for a lot of fucked up shi #and this guy probably viewed as culpable to something that deeply affected him or someone he knows

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