Young Americans sympathize more with CEO shooting suspect than victim
Young Americans sympathize more with CEO shooting suspect than victim
Well yeah, it's natural to side with the person who stopped a killer.
Stopped a mass murderer, even.
You know, this is the part that really drives me nuts about this whole thing. A murderer murdered a murderer.
Murderer A, he's taken care of. The judicial system will put him in front of a jury, he will be tried. He will be found innocent or guilty. The system handles murderer A.
Murderer B on the other hand, just screw the laws of humans for a moment, the laws of physics say that he shouldn't be murdering any more after death, but nope. People are still dying. You would think this is where the system would kick in and start putting a stop to it but nope, corporation is still killing. Hell the meeting murderer B was headed to didn't even get delayed.
There's no law of physics that says people will stop dying just because the person who caused them to die was killed. Thomas Midgely Jr. died in 1944, he's still killing people. The wheels he put in motion still haven't come to a stop.
(he invented Tetra-ethyl lead and CFCs, he's at least slightly damaged every living thing on the planet for a century)
I think you mean ,Luigi corp LLC, can't hold the company director liable for something out of his hands.
You really can't be surprised by this
You can, strictly speaking. Many mistakes are available.
Most of the population doesnt relate to some 1% fuck committing mass social murder? Strange, we'll have to work overtime to uncover why this is.
Actually, the victim is not the one that was shot.
Victims*
First time I’ve had some faith in humanity in a while.
There was no victim in this shooting
What do you mean? Luigi is victim of capitalism here.
True
Maybe because the same people who are asking for sympathy now, are the people who hide their sympathy behind "it's business" when it's the other way round.
Sympathy has to be earned.
Yeah I remember seeing estimates where someone said 51,000 people were denied life saving care during his time as CEO. If there was no sympathy for their lives, why would people be sympathetic for his?
Also when someone told me they shouldnt have shot him, they should have just punched him or something I asked if it should be 1 punch for all 51,000 lives... Because I have a feeling that 2 weeks later (a little over 14 hours I have been informed) when he's done getting punched once per second I don't think there would be much left of his corpse. The bullet is more "humane"
The headline doesn't lie, but importantly:
48% said they view the killing as totally or somewhat justified.
Lower than I expected honestly.
This Brian guy was pure evil. Why the heck is anyone other than other evil CEOs sympathizing with him?
An entire generation plus of lead poisoning.
No, they very much sympathize with brian thompson's millions of victims, too.
Gee I wonder why!
Is this news?
this is not !news@lemmy.world this is !luigimangione@lemmy.world