You’re just drawing lines between social murder and murder, but I disagree that they’re meaningfully different except of course that one is legal and one isn’t. I don’t promote murder, but I do find that if you are consistent that all forms of murder are wrong then this is no different than a sniper on the roof of a stadium taking shots all day long with a pile of ammo behind him getting counter-sniped. Will another sniper take his place? Obviously. That’s why systemic change is the real goal here, but let’s not pretend the sniper going down is some great loss or that we should feel guilty for praising an effective counter-sniper who has offered no evidence that he’d ever aim lower.
The man isn’t the only one in the company and the system responsible. He steers the company at large, yes but every hand involved, be it the government, president, ceo to individual worker denying claims is technically at fault. I do not think we should celebrate murder. I do not celebrate Brian Thomson, neither do I celebrate Luigi Magione. I hope he gets his fair sentence.
Who is worse? Is a mass murderer deserving to have their life as they know it impacted negatively? Would you be satisfied by another case trying to hold a powerful person accountable so that they can be given a slap on the wrist? That’s the alternative for Brian, except not even, because social murder is legal. You can’t let a system deal with the outcomes if the system makes no fucking sense whatsoever. Change the system, but don’t be surprised when people get creative about the ways to change it if they have no power to enact that change at all.
You’re just drawing lines between social murder and murder, but I disagree that they’re meaningfully different except of course that one is legal and one isn’t. I don’t promote murder, but I do find that if you are consistent that all forms of murder are wrong then this is no different than a sniper on the roof of a stadium taking shots all day long with a pile of ammo behind him getting counter-sniped. Will another sniper take his place? Obviously. That’s why systemic change is the real goal here, but let’s not pretend the sniper going down is some great loss or that we should feel guilty for praising an effective counter-sniper who has offered no evidence that he’d ever aim lower.
The man isn’t the only one in the company and the system responsible. He steers the company at large, yes but every hand involved, be it the government, president, ceo to individual worker denying claims is technically at fault. I do not think we should celebrate murder. I do not celebrate Brian Thomson, neither do I celebrate Luigi Magione. I hope he gets his fair sentence.
Who is worse? Is a mass murderer deserving to have their life as they know it impacted negatively? Would you be satisfied by another case trying to hold a powerful person accountable so that they can be given a slap on the wrist? That’s the alternative for Brian, except not even, because social murder is legal. You can’t let a system deal with the outcomes if the system makes no fucking sense whatsoever. Change the system, but don’t be surprised when people get creative about the ways to change it if they have no power to enact that change at all.