As in the case of the United Healthcare CEO, we are very quick to demonize the immediate violence and killing, and rightly so. But in doing that, we definitely overlook the many thousand uncountable lives that the behavior of the single person might have indirectly killed.

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tirant 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

That is all hypothetical. Everyone with certain level of power and wealth could then hypothetically be accountable to thousands of deaths just by mere action or lack of action. Every single politician with power to decide on budgets could be accounted for it. And that still does not justify the death of any of them.

	▲	camillomiller 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I agree that it's quite hard to draw a line and it's a slippery slope, but what UH was doing certainly isn't comparable to cutting state budget for political or financial reasons.
	▲	impossiblefork 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>And that still does not justify the death of any of them. Surely everyone is the physical cause of everything that results his action or inaction? We differentiate the world through all the interactions and then we get some langrange multipliers and whatnot, or we do it more carefully taking non-linear effects into account to still get some notion of responsibility. Surely these people you mention are in fact responsible, and surely that should make them targets in case they increase deaths, destroy people's potential etc?

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ebiester 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Except that United is doing the same thing it was before, with only a few months where they dialed back the pressure until their stock price started lagging.