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In reply to the discussion: New Yorker: A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You're Laughing? [View all]hay rick
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One of the "advantages" of corporate organization is the avoidance of personal liability. People understand that when a huge insurance company can implement coverage policies that deny critical care for patients, literally thousands of people can be condemned to avoidable death. People also understand that withholding care reduces costs and increases profits for insurance companies. Top executives at those companies approve corporate policies that deny care, increase profits...and maim and kill patients. Top executives are compensated for increased profits and immunized from legal consequences. Their argument is that their company and policies don't kill anyone- they just refuse to help cure or save them.
In a corporate culture, these deaths are not murder, they are collateral damage. The more often top executives are able to "pull the trigger," the higher their pay and bonuses. Empathy is often viewed as a defect. The people who rise to these lofty corporate positions are driven by ambition and greed. They accept the costs of avoidable misery and death of others as rungs in the ladder of success. The avoidance of criminal responsibility for this kind of killing is a failing of our legal system. Killing a CEO is a vigilante act that addresses that failure. In the absence of sufficient legal restraints on predatory behavior, fear of sudden, violent death may have a salubrious effect.
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