• marcos@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    The point is that the CEO wasn’t in jail for murder, was he?

    What other options his victims had?

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      14 days ago

      the ceo is just the effect, not the cause. the us laws allow such bullshit and do not protect the weak (at all). what this one ceo did was, like what many other ceo’s do, immoral but legal. you cant jail someone for legal stuff.

      change the system and force them to adhere to modern moral standards. if they try to pull some bs now, it is quite easy to lock them away.

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        14 days ago

        I just want to add to the conversation and bring forward the fact that health insurance corporations give millions to both parties during election cycles and continuously lobby for a system that allows them to do what they are currently doing.

        The people in the government aren’t just writing laws that allow health insurance companies to do whatever they want for shits and giggles. They’re convinced. Either by pressure campaigns done by their lobbyists or they just straight up use bribes. It’s seriously fucked up, and when I think corruption can’t get worse I learn something new and find out it already is far worse than I ever imagined.

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        14 days ago

        What the OP said means literally that if mass murdering people is legal, people will inevitably murder whoever makes the law and helps on that mass murdering. (What is not a universal law, but as sociology predictions go, is quite reliable.)

        It’s not a hard concept to understand. Also, it has a very distant relation to morality or legality.