If the blame is transitive based on who writes the rules then Voters have more responsibility than that CEO ever did.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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No, he's also a voter and has at minimum the voter's responsibility plus what are you trying to say?
That the US Citizens voted for these deaths and they got them. The solution seems pretty clear, convince people to vote differently.
How can someone speak so boldly when they know nothing of what they speak? Unless they're a troll
You seem like the expert to me, Socrates.
I try not to make bold claims about anything I don't actually know. If you think US citizens voted for all the horrible things the US government does, you don't have the slightest idea of how anything works in US politics.
If you think US citizens voted for all the horrible things the US government does, you don’t have the slightest idea of how anything works in US politics.
Have you checked who the fucking president is? Yes, I do think US Voters are masochists. Very much so.
So when less than half of the country voted for someone, that means the entire country voted for him? That's exactly what you're saying.
Trump won the popular vote.
And you think that means more than half the country voted for him?
More than half of everyone who voted did so for Trump, and people who could have voted but didn't are complicit.
Your knowledge on US politics is based on memes. Trump won the popular vote by a very small amount, less people voted for Trump in this election than people who voted for Hilary in his first election. Even if everyone did actually vote for him, it's pretty clear that those people are severely misinformed and are therefore being taken advantage of. What is happening in the US is tragic and the amount of people that can be blamed is much smaller than the entire population.
Your knowledge on US politics is based on memes. Trump won the popular vote by a very small amount, less people voted for Trump in this election than people who voted for Hilary in his first election.
And 10 Million former DNC voters stayed the fuck home.
This is why America is failing. We chose this outcome. America as a whole wants death and self harm.
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I fail to see a definition of murderer that includes this CEO and doesn't include literally everybody. I mean how many future people do we all murder when we drive our cars or even order a package delivered. Unless you're just sitting in a corner eating rice and beans and washing it down with water, you've probably contributed to someone's death by now.
The real murderer is the capitalist US health care system, and that's still very much alive and well. This CEO's death is negligible compared to the problem, instead it's just a second problem.
It's the same mistake that all of society has made for about 5000 years now. Punishing individuals for preventable deaths that are caused by bad systems at best causes suffering for a steep cost and virtually no actual benefit while providing an opiate that keeps us from confronting the actual problem, and at worst actually contributes to those preventable deaths.
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Murder involves taking action IMO, denying payments is barely an action and perhaps even reduces the number of actions (depending on if it takes more steps to approve payment). The CEO was just encouraging death, a far more cowardly action.
What a feckless, empty definition "taking action" is - you posting here was taking an action? Do you mean "pulling the trigger"?
So by your definition, Hitler and Charles Manson were not responsible for murders?
Hitler repeatedly called for the murder/extermination of others, Charles Manson shot someone resulting in their death.
Health insurance is merely a company, sure it is significantly worse and results in significant deaths when compared to a single payer system, however it is a capitalist solution to a capitalist healthcare system. Would you rather health insurance be outlawed with no replacement requiring every patient to pay out of pocket?
Health insurance accomplishes its task of making money precisely because it provides just enough value to the general public to not have riots/political action calling for its destruction.
I really wonder if you are convinced you make compelling arguments? This is mush, congrats.
sort of agree, but $>life gives them motive in my opinion. I'd still call it murder by definition.
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