It appears that in every thread about this event there is someone calling everyone else in the thread sick and twisted for not proclaiming that all lives are sacred and being for the death of one individual.

It really is a real life trolley problem because those individuals are not seeing the deaths caused the insurance industry and not realizing that sitting back and doing nothing (i.e. not pulling the lever on the train track switch) doesn’t save lives…people are going to continue to die if nothing is done.

Taking a moral high ground and stating that all lives matter is still going to costs lives and instead of it being a few CEOs it will be thousands.

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          18 days ago

          Mostly due to the efforts of a lot of people working to make things better through political and social action.

          But hey, they had that one time where they killed a bunch of people, that must have been the reason their lives are so much better. Clearly

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            18 days ago

            Non violent action has never brought power to the table without a separate violent movement adding pressure. Not even Gandhi or Dr. Martin Luther King.

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      It only took a couple more civil wars, thousands of political arbitrary executions, 2 empiralist dictatorships and 2 monarchies to get a stable democracy about a century later.

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          Unstable government but still functioning as intended, no one has a clear majority in the parlement so a government who doesn’t talk to everyone is going to get trashed and that’s what happened. This was very democratic.

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            17 days ago

            The US doesn’t have a parliament. Neither party talks to everyone. There are women and ethnic minorities in Congress, which is definitely not what was originally intended.