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.

  • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I think if they catch him they sort of have to. It’s up to the police to drag their heels investigating if they want to avoid that.

    It will be interesting to see if jury nullification comes into play if he gets caught and there is a trial. Would at least 1/12 jurors refuse to convict despite the law? The main facebook post about the CEO’s death has a 26-1 ratio of laughing emoji to crying emoji…

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    13 days ago

    Yes.

    Even in a unjust world mob justice isn’t justice. This means a mob deciding someone is guilty and acting out punishment is unjust. But also a mob deciding a crime should go unpunished is unjust.

    There’s plenty wrong with how insurance works and plenty wrong with the justice system. But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues. It’s all to easy to give in to our basic instincts and point to someone to blame. We punish them instead of fixing the issues. Killing one ceo might feel good, but it doesn’t really change the big picture and in fact constitutes layer upon layer of failure. We should be better than that. History is full of people (singular and groups) being used as a scape goat to deflect and feel like something is being done, whilst in fact not actually fixing anything and just feeding hate.

    Also in a capitalist world, the people with the most money have the most power. If we collectively decide it’s open warfare, purge style distopia, they are going to have the upper hand. So purely from a self interest point of view, it would be better to work on fixing shit instead of reverting to monke.

    • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      It did fix one issue. Just hear Blue Cross rolled back their decision to limit General Anaesthesia. That is one good turn.

      Perhaps some CEOs must be sacrificed from time to time for fixing all the issues. Not everyone at once, just enough to put some pressure on the companies.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
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      13 days ago

      Not quite. The reason we reject vigilantism is not that it is always unjust, but only usually. In this case, however, the outcome was in line with any reasonable objective standard of justice, as far as I can tell.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
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      13 days ago

      But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues.

      Genuine question - how long do you think we should try to fix the issues before coming to the conclusion that they can’t be fixed through conventional means? Do you think we should resort to nonconventional resolutions at all, if the conventional ones cease to function or don’t yield results? If not, why not?

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
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        13 days ago

        Nobody actually has an answer to that because there is no answer to it.

        The system is so broken that there is no longer a way to fix it.

        Any processes that could be implemented that have the potential to fix the issues comes from a broken system.

        These processes would then be administered by the broken system.

        Therefore no matter how good the process is, it will end up broken.

        You may say that I am a hopeless person.

        You may say that I am wrong and there is obviously something that can be done that has not yet been done.

        I would say you are right, but experience indicates that although the possibility of reform exists, the capacity of the system to reform itself would be administered by a broken system.

        Therefore even reform will end up broken and fail.

        There was a reason why Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. I’m just out here handing out rosin .

          • bizarroland@fedia.io
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            12 days ago

            There is no fixing the human condition. Maybe when the computers become sentient they’ll not look too poorly on us.

            I think we could be rehabilitated we just can’t be in charge of the rehabilitation

  • Rogue@feddit.uk
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    12 days ago

    Actions have consequences. It’s important we have precedents that the world is just

  • Dave field@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    For the social agreement society has, it’s irrelevant if you think this person is a hero or a villain, they need to be tried by a jury of their peers in a court of law.

    If they are not, then the social agreement that we don’t go around murdering people, no matter the intent changes and life becomes very difficult.

  • Sputnik34@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Lol Lmao Fuck no. Every day he’s not found is another day that the United States is in a better position