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Moderators delete Reddit thread as doctors torch dead UnitedHealthcare CEO
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I find some comments here disturbing. The man may have been not the best example of ethical behavior, but he is still a murder victim with a family who will no doubt miss him. No one deserves to be shot in the back on a city street. If that was true, it's not long until your number comes up.
The internet is full of false bravado, and few morals.
I have no sympathy for people who are responsible for and profit from killing people. All the people who died preventable deaths because insurance wouldn't pay to save their lives had family too. I'm not about to go out and shoot people but I'll damn well cheer for someone killing an evil bastard.
I'm 100% sure he's responsible for at least the same amount of people who died in 9/11. And then add a zero or three. His decisions alone, only to increase profits.
I'm hungry, when do we eat?
Dude, literally millions of years off people’s lives.
It's fine if you want to play judge and jury, just try not to do it with someone's life. Thanks.
My yin, if there's anyone who's deaths should be celebrated, it's oligarchs. I think they should be stopped nonviolently and preferably legally, but guess what, they've removed all choices other than violence.
Oh fuck right off. This dude got off easy. Shot in the back, no fear, quickly passing out and passing on.
Compare that to the millions of people that suffered, not just died of preventable illness, but suffered, and so did their families. Some of them still suffering not only emotional debt but financial debt too.
You will never justify this stance, and you know it.
False bravado
Broken brain.
"Don't be the judge jury and executioner"
We have tried time and time again to let the "legal system" figure this shit out, and time and time again, billionaires just pay their way out with fines or just postpone it indefinitely while they commit more crimes against humanity.
Idk if you get some kind of justification by being knowingly incorrect around of a bunch of other people, but we can all see through it. Be part of the solution or keep it to yourself.
It's honestly the same shit when you factor in the fact that most people are either in poverty or extremely close to it with a lot of those because of this dudes leadership.
You can make it look small by doing the .04B, you're also missing his .02B (20M if you wanna do regular people numbers) in stock options, but that's still an absolute fuck ton of money, and mixed with his decisions to willing fuck so many people over, I know he wasn't a friend.
We're only talking about publicly disclosed money here too.
Say that to the CEO of United Healthcare.
And that's not up to you than him
Were you trying to say something?
Yes,if your strangled logic says that this guy plays judge and jury, it is exactly what you are doing.
I guess I could just repeat my question, but that would probably be pointless.
Looks like they had a stroke.. hope they have good insurance 👀
Then what's the correct way?
Do you also cheer when prisoners are executed? Many of them are evil bastards too.
Lmao comparing the worst person on death row to an oligarchs is like comparing a kitten to a demon, they're not even in the same zip code of evil
The man was a mass murderer. But because he wore a suit and did it from an office it was OK. If a gunman put down any other mass murderer noone would complain.
What part of “eat the rich” did you not understand?
I understand false bravado and I hope you do as well
You keep using that phrase like it's a magic "win arguments" spell. I don't think you're doing yourself any favors here.
Everything they say is word salad.
He's a merchant of death. Just like a weapons dealer. Possibly even worse, because his company has the power to prevent suffering, and explicitly chooses not to. Morally, I'd say that is worse than selling weapons.
They deny claims at twice the industry average, so clearly they don't need to, they choose to. There is zero chance he was unaware how many denials his company was sending out, and the only way a rate double his competition could be achieved was by purposely denying things that should be covered.
Extrajudicial killings are of course not good, but I don't really care about objectively bad people getting what's coming to them.
So guess you're willing to play judge and jury, but not executioner. Good to know.
I would carry out the sentence for some of those fucks just fine. They don't see us as people, so no reason I should give them the same courtesy.
Interesting take. Agree.
This was front side of a city street if that makes you feel any better. Pretty sure his family can dry their tears with their millions in inheritance achieved through their sweet daddykins turning so many other children who will grow up a fuckton less well off into orphans.