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Greg Kemnitz's avatar

Yup. I used to work for what is now Lockheed-Martin (my first job out of college during the depths of the Cold War), and would prefer that antiwar types not kill me or even its CEO. I also used to work for a few other companies that have significant groups of people that don't like them, particularly Google, which bought Fitbit when I was there (otherwise, I avoided Google as I don't like advertising-based revenue models, even though Google HQ is only a long walk or short bike-ride from my house).

The shooting of the United Health CEO is not just murder, but terrorism, as it's politically motivated murder intended to make a political statement. Whether one agrees with the political statement or not is irrelevant to it being a crime, and a very bad precedent.

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Jon Neumann's avatar

“The way out of this moral morass is not through violence but through democratic action — deliberation, protest, elections, and legislation.” This is so true but the reason some people are giddy about this murder is that the Healthcare industry has funneled its parasitic profits into buying politicians of both parties. If peaceful democratic measures are off the table because of an ethically compromised political class it only raises the chance of vigilante violence against the elites they are trying to protect.

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