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This particular murder is a challenge to the rule of law as a basic principle in a way that, for example, multiple murders by a serial killer are not. The serial killer does more direct harm, but IMO this murder requires more forceful repudiation by society.
The tag I gave you months ago checks out.
The desire to engage in meaningful discussions that would never go anywhere wasting my time have been avoided. Thank you.
LOL I am on web and after reading the above comment I thought "I wish was using Voyager so I could tag that user"
TIL you can tag users in Voyager. I've been using it since I moved to Lemmy and never knew.
You can tag users in Thunder too
It's a handy feature. Boost has it too!
There's an extension for Firefox that I use
Nice, now I kind of wish you could see what other people have tagged users as. Except for the rampant abuse that would proliferate from that capability.
Haha, yeah I know what you mean.
...huh. I read that as giving the viewpoint of this administration, not as presenting a more fundamental (to them) truth.
I suspect you've got the more accurate read; thanks for posting this!
That’s awesome how do I do this. I keep seeing these enablers or bots with increasing frequency
Do you use web or a mobile app? Voyager, thunder, and boost have this as a feature, and apparently there's a Firefox extension that can do it also
What do we do about the murder of thousands by using AI to refuse medical care, and instead funnel the profits to shareholder portfolios?
This particular murder is a challenge more to the system of control than to the rule of law. It's not society but the oligarchy who believe it requires a more forceful repudiation. Otherwise power might start to shift out of their hands and back to the people.
And what exactly makes this one worse than others?
The victim being rich and powerful, unlike most murder victims?
The victim belonging to a group of people very lucrative to the powers that be?
The fact that your favorite authoritarian politicians and talking heads said so on tv?
The aggravating factor is not the identity of the victim but rather the intent of the murderer. There have already been two more murders inspired at least partially by the murder of Brian Thompson (at least to the extent that the killers also wrote messages on the shell casings). If the rule of law is to be preserved, then it must be made clear that those who try to use violence as a tool for extralegal social change will not succeed, and that they will be punished severely.
No significant social change has been acquired without violence, like it or not.
I'd personally argue that the motive is a huge mitigating factor in this case. Especially when you consider the hell that the insurance industry leeches put him and his family through.
IF it's even him, that is.
I'm of the opinion that law doesn't automatically equal justice and that justice is MUCH more important than law.
Which is why I consider illegal but justifiable actions against legally entrenched injustice much less egregious than that which is unjust but perfectly legal.
The problem with this line of thinking is that people like Brian Thompson are excused entirely. How much pain, suffering, and unnecessary death did Brian Thompson enable with his policies? And what recourse did his victims have?
Fix that problem, and attacks like this don't happen in the first place.
Bro, we have a 2 tier justice system. This just makes it a little more just.
Talk to your buddy trump about respecting the rule of law. Also, violence is inherent with government, what the fuck are you talking about?
Do you think not respecting Hebeas Corpus is not violent? How about putting hard-working innocent people in chains and sending them to concentration camps?
You have serious issues.
Username checks out.
Arbitrary benchmarks.
Why I think we should give this man a trophy and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Anybody that kills the Nazi should be given the same treatment that our world war II soldiers were given. Fucking ticker tape parade for this motherfucker.
This feels like something you'd enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyR8XgrwE4w
I don't know if they did, but I sure did. That was fantastic.
Maybe if the rule of law was doing it's fucking job and punishing these insurance bastards like they deserve randos wouldn't have to gun them down in the street. Society should be grateful SOMEONE did something about it.
From what I've been hearing, society IS grateful.
Just not the billionaires, and the media they control is how they voice it.
If that is your take then you are a monster. A sociopathic monster.
The CEO in question was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people through sheer greed.
You are not a human being.
I guess it makes sense. A principled murder needs harsher punishment than even a serial killer… That’s the theory anyway.