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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll add that I still do not understand a rich 26 yo who attended prep school and whose parents profited from assisted living and a country club thinks he's changing the world by killing another rich guy (who attended public schools and didn't even have a fancy upbringing).

The law would hopefully have done its job with the CEO for his insider trading and any other laws he broke. [/quote]

1.  I do not support gunning somebody down.  However, I have thought a lot about this crazy story, and I think I get why this privileged boy decided it had to be him.  Consider: if a black person had done the shooting, scrutiny of the situation would no be the same, and the group to whom Luigi was trying to make a point would be considerably less shaken than if they saw someone "like them" commit the murder.  The same with a poor shooter, or a middle class shooter, etc.  I'm not saying what he did was the right way to make his point, but if someone WERE going to choose this path, then it really has to be a privileged white male with a lot to lose who must take this guy out.

That's what I think he was thinking.

I do think it is true that our reactions would be considerably less sympathetic and inclined to get into his head and understand his situation if he had been poor, non-white, etc.

And I think he wanted his action to prompt conversation and scrutiny of the system; I don't think he believed that this one person's death alone would fix anything.

Again, I'm not saying I support gunning somebody down in American streets. But this is what I think he intended when he decided to take this path.

2.  Playing devil's advocate, what if this shooting sparks a series of talks and scrutiny that results in real change to the health insurance industry?  YES, this is highly UNLIKELY, but just for fun, if this happened...would you look back and conclude that the killing of this one (criminal, morally bankrupt) individual was, in fact, "worth it"?  Because I don't know what my answer would be to this.

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He had a mental problem, spiraled, picked a grievance, sold himself on the “only” way FW, and wanted to feel important and garner attention, to himself as well.

It’s like the 2024 joker movie, net of the child abuse. Hits home too much. [/quote]

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