This is all so well stated. Just a short thread - - ThreadSky

billcorbett.bsky.social • 80 days ago

This is all so well stated. Just a short thread -

Reposted from Nash

Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment:

The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it.

But it's more than that.

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mr-b-natural.bsky.social•80 days ago

"I wanna decide who lives and who dies!"

No, but seriously. Dude did terrible and fatal things to people in need of help. He made his choice and faced the consequences. I don't think the world is worse without him.

hurricaneburt.bsky.social•79 days ago

jgbrowning.bsky.social•80 days ago

Yep. One obeys the social contract because one believes it applies fairly and/or out of fear of the consequences of breaking it.

When one knows it is not fairly applied *and* one loses the fear of consequences, one brings into existence a new, reverse-directionally-violent social contract.

leghk.bsky.social•80 days ago

Then, with so many parents, spouses and children dead from denied care, eventually, rarely, a vengeful crusader is born.

tigersrevenge.bsky.social•80 days ago

📌

shaggyrand.bsky.social•80 days ago

Can we just admit he died of a pre-existing condition?

serisothikos.bsky.social•80 days ago

the funniest thing is seeing the CEO caste on linkedin rend their garments over this because they know - they *know* - that there are daily moral failings which they have presumed bear no social consequence

ingforart.bsky.social•80 days ago

They weren't so upset they didn't profit from it. The company stock went up

vance.bsky.social•80 days ago

Somebody let the shareholders know that CEO deaths make number go up.

guachi.bsky.social•80 days ago

I'll remember not to care when the police extra judicially kill someone.

chrisfishburn42.bsky.social•80 days ago

There are about 2700 billionaires in the world. They've been buying the legal/political systems for decades to enrich and protect themselves at the literal expense of everyone else. That's unsustainable. It was only a matter of time before something snapped for someone.

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