Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?

• pingveno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No, but people are suggesting giving his murderer a free pass because they don’t like him aka he is unpopular. There’s a good reason that he’s unpopular, just like there’s a good reason that many widely detested people are unpopular. It doesn’t mean we start being a lawless nation.

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  • comfy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can’t remember anyone justifying out of personal dislike or popularity. Their justification is that this person’s actions are mass social murder, suggesting that such anti-social people deserve to be killed if the legal system refuses to punish and deter them. The fact that people generally hate a mass killer is incidental, it’s not the reason they deserve a punishment.

    There are good arguments against vigilantism in general, and while I don’t fully agree in this specific case, I respect them as valid reasons. But to say this assassin is being given a free pass just because people don’t like them is absurd.

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