> The guy he murdered was a cog in the wheel who was doing his job (like many of us are) within the system that has been established
The cog deemed most important by everyone and who got the most money for his cog-services, where all other cogs were following that one cog, a kind of master cog. If you had to choose which cog to break to stop a machine, which cog would you select?
> Curious how many people here believe that indeed he should have been murdered?
If you can't change a system, you at least try to stop it. Should he have been murdered? No. In properly designed systems, you have fail-safes. When those fail-safes are not enough, some cogs will break, sometimes very spectacularly. That is what we have here. A system could not handle all the accrued stress and starts breaking.
Do you personally know all the people Brian Thompson killed via denied claims? I'd love to see a list and hear from the families. Besides going on a narrative spreading on the Internet which too many people believe narratives they are sold. The narratives the left pushed on orange man got him re-elected so i dont take narratives for face value. What I do is not cheering on a murderer nor cheering on the break down of society!
Cause I am not one to believe narratives spread on the Internet. I want to know facts and have them presented to me from solid sources. No doubt they have denied claims but how many and how many were killed because of it? Where is all that data and how many did Brian Thompson approve & directly kill. Im not a sheep on the INternet I want to know more before I ever condone the break down of society and cheer on a murderer!
Yes our healthcare system needs to change for sure, but is America going to embrace paying 50 to 60% of their earnings. It's a hard road for America to embrace & overall a very complex issue we are discussing.
In this case it's nuanced to me ... it's definitely not black and white as..
- Brian Thompson was not the head CEO of United Healthcare... was he just pushing along the agenda that Andrew Witty and the board devised? Further as noted Im not a sheep to follow any Internet/social media/political narrative as we have seen time and again that narratives are made up and or blown up. I agree our healthcare system needs to be better, but are Americans ready to pay same taxes as Europeans (doubtful to me).
- The murderer is totally crazy (he had no business with United Healthcare) and an idiot (killed Thompson not Witty).
- If the murderer wasnt young and attractive but old and unattractive 2 months later society wouldnt continue to be hiding behind their keyboards cheering a murderer on or seeing headlines "P. Diddy is Mad Not Getting Same Love in Prison." All of this brings to the forefront a primal/SICK part of humanity which does not promote a civil and polite society.
I am not interested in another reeition of your big picture opinion. Obviously you don't want to answer this question because you've been asked 3 times now.
In this case it's nuanced to me ... it's definitely not black and white as..
- Brian Thompson is/was not the head CEO of United Healthcare... was he just pushing along the agenda that Andrew Witty and the board devised? Further as noted Im not a sheep to follow any Internet/social media/political narrative as we have seen time and again that narratives are made up and or blown up.
- The murderer is totally crazy (he had no business with United Healthcare) and an idiot (killed Thompson not Witty).
- If the murderer wasnt young and attractive but old and unattractive 2 months later society wouldnt continue to be hiding behind their keyboards cheering a murderer on or seeing headlines "P. Diddy is Mad Not Getting Same Love in Prison." All of this brings to the forefront a SICK part of humanity which is does not promote a civil and polite society which is what Im for above all else!
Do you know someone personally that Brian Thompson killed or you are just jumping on a bandwagon wanting socialistic healthcare for all Americans. That may be a good thing but get ready to pay 50% to 60% of wages to the govt and Americans as a society are tax averse compared to Europeans who are used to paying high taxes. Its not an easy change for Americans to embrace and of course healthcare is expensive but so is becoming a doctor and the student loan debt that comes with it. Doctors and medical professional definitely need to be paid these high salaries. It is a very complex issue but cheering a murderer on is a break down of society.
He was a CEO of UnitedHealthcare. "Brian Thompson was the chief executive officer (CEO) of UnitedHealthcare, the insurance arm of UnitedHealth Group".[0]
> It is a very complex issue but cheering a murderer on is a break down of society.
It's a symptom of a break down of society. And cheering is because the killed one was a symbol of that breakdown.
Downvote doesn't always mean "I don't agree with you", it sometimes means "your argument is flawed". The CEO is not "just a cog". CEO is a PERSON who choses to do things in some way and enforces that way on the rest of organisation. CEO - chief executive officer. Chief - means here "the most important one"[0]. Executive - "someone in a high position, especially in business, who makes decisions and puts them into action"[1]. Officer - he has authority[2].
I agree that he did not deserve murder. But he was a person who was the most responsible for whole organization. If he wasn't the one who wanted to deny people their care that they paid for, he should quit. He didn't, so he agreed to take all the blame for telling others what to do.
