This is a genuine question.

I have a hard time with this. My righteous side wants him to face an appropriate sentence, but my pessimistic side thinks this might have set a great example for CEOs to always maintain a level of humanity or face unforseen consequences.

P.S. this topic is highly controversial and I want actual opinions so let’s be civil.

And if you’re a mod, delete this if the post is inappropriate or if it gets too heated.

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
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    Maybe get a fine for .0005% of their net worth. You know, so they don’t do it again.

    That’s how it works, right?

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      I am not from the US. How many jurors are there in the trial? And don’t they have to all agree? There would definitely be at least one bootlicker or paid off person.

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        Twelve. Pretty sure one can hang the jury. In that case they’d probably retry him. All 12 would have to agree to aquit.

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    If he gets caught, then I’d say yes. Murder should be treated as murder regardless of what the reason is. Making exceptions is never a good idea.

    I just hope he doesn’t get caught.

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      Then all of the healthcare companies that allow people to die because they will not cover them need to be prosecuted, every executive, every decision maker.

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        The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.

        CS Lewis - Screwtape Letters (preface)

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      Making exceptions is never a good idea.

      Why not? The whole reason we have judicial discretion is that every crime departs from the platonic ideal in one way or another.

      The working class has been losing a class war for decades without ever properly noticing that it was happening. Working Americans have been dying in that war, and now someone struck back.

      I’ll be sold on the “no exceptions” ideal when we haul in the corporate murderers alongside the people who fought back.

      Jury nullification is the other acceptable option.

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        Yeah, that’s kinda my point. The system is fucked beyond repair specifically because these people running the companies get exceptions. These people have basically let thousands of people die for the sake of money. So like I said before, murder is murder and should be treated as such.

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    Do you want to see the people who killed Osama Bin Laden prosecuted?
    Because the United Heath CEO killed far more people, including many more children, than Bin Laden did on 9/11.

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    This place is worse than Reddit. Bunch of bloodthirsty, instigating keyboard warriors and wannabe freedom fighters who love nothing more but to suck terrorist cock. What a joke.

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      I don’t think throwing words like “terrorist” around is at all fair. The guy was responsible for way more death and suffering than any terrorist.

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          You’re the only one bringing up hamas and Hezbollah. Seems like you’re a little emotional.

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              Nope. Not new. But again, you’re the only one bringing it up anywhere in this post. Trying to force it in where it doesn’t belong. Seems like it’s a you problem.

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                What. You think the people here who advocate for more murders aren’t the same ones who suck hamas dick in all those anti Israel threads? It’s not “forced in where it doesn’t belong”, it’s literally the same fucking problem.