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What's your opinion about Luigi Mangione? (self.anarchism)
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"Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare since 2021, was shot and killed outside an entrance to the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan, New York City, on December 4, 2024. He was in the city to attend an annual investors meeting for UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare. Authorities believe the attack was not random. Thompson had been criticized for UnitedHealthcare's rejection of insurance claims, and his family reported that he had received death threats in the past. The shooting occurred early in the morning, and the suspect, initially described as a white man wearing a mask, fled the scene."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson

(edit) I would like to point out that Luigi Mangione is only a suspect and there are currently doubts about the integrity of the evidence.

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[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If a drug dealer who had 2 kids sold fentanyl laced drugs that killed several people just to make some money got murdered in the streets nobody would say "oh but he has 2 kids".

They might say the drug dealer was doing something illegal. How this CEO was running things should be illegal. Countless (innocent) people died so he could get more money.

Oh also he was doing illegal things including insider trading and drinking and driving so there's that.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah.

Honestly I see Brian Thompson as way worse than this hypothetical drug dealer.

Obviously, the drug dealer is bad: he's effectively killed people by selling fentanylaced drugs (presumably without telling his buyers what they were actually buying). But Brian has effectively killed thousands.

In both cases I have sympathy for the kids. In the drug dealers case, I might not be crying my eyes out about the death; but I still wish some form of non-lethal recourse had been taken. This person's death doesn't send a very effective message, as most other people in his position have already accepted the risk inherent to what they're doing.

In Brian's case, non-lethal recourse wouldn't have been effective. If he was left alive he would've just kept killing people for his own profit, but his death sends a message to others in his position. People who usually wouldn't see any sort of consequences for their actions.