• CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work
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    Sometimes a murder victim deserved it. As a CEO of a major private health insurance company, notorious in its own right for claim denials, Mr. Thompson was significantly responsible for a good amount of social murder. There are of course other social murderers out there, but we should be grateful this one was stopped.

    Anyway, the working class is already disproportionately victimized by the bourgeoisie. They’re the ones with no moral standing. They’re the ones asking for it.

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      Similar argument can be used to justify the murder of many other people we would otherwise deem good. This is not the way. There’s a reason we no longer act like we did during the middle ages. It’s not for individual rogue actors to choose who gets to live and who doesn’t. That’s not a world anyone wants to live in.

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        Are you suggesting that that the nature of a murder victim shouldn’t be relevant in a murder trial? Killing a bad guy should be potentially completely mitigating. We have precedent for that. For example, Gary Plauché served no prison time for publicly murdering his son’s rapist.