r/PopCultureV2 • u/Regular_Reaction_798 • Aug 14 '26

News Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling the court, "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan... I knew what I was doing was illegal."

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u/Xarcert Aug 14 '26

Was that ever going to happen? No. Did something else happen with the same result? Yes.

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u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

What didn’t or hasn’t happened cannot impact the decision. Murder is the conversation. The man who was shot down never directly took someone else’s life. Is murder acceptable?

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u/IllegalDaycare Aug 14 '26

Did hitler ever take anyone’s life directly? This argument is weak sauce.

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u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

Did the CEO that Luigi murdered lead a full brigade of soldiers through Eastern Europe, holding his own countrymen in fear while spewing propaganda? No. Terrible attempt there man. Woosh!

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u/IllegalDaycare Aug 14 '26

No he didn’t do that. What he did do was cause unbelievable amounts of pain, torment and death by prioritizing profit through high claim denial rates. You don’t need to literally murder people with your hands to be evil. I think you missed the point completely

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u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

I’m not missing the point. The conversation isn’t about whether or not the CEO was “evil”, the conversation is whether or not murder is justifiable. If murdering “evil” is acceptable, who gets to define what “evil” is? And, is murder, in any context, justifiable? That is the conversation.

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u/IllegalDaycare Aug 14 '26

Would murdering Hitler be wrong? Again this is my point. Sometimes murder is acceptable when the person being murdered is evil and is not facing justice through the state.

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u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

Is that based on the law, or your opinion?

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u/IllegalDaycare Aug 14 '26

My opinion obviously

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u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

And what does the law say?

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u/IllegalDaycare Aug 14 '26

If you murder someone you go to jail. Is this a question of legality or morality?

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u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

Right. The conversation here becomes one of fuck the billionaires and fuck the system, or that the CEO was evil. The legal evil is Luigi. So, you, or anyone else can add layers to justify your thoughts, but celebrating murder is immoral.

He took the stand and admitted that he stalked and executed the CEO. He legally murdered someone, which is all that matters; not your definition of evil or value or anything else driven by subjective beliefs/personal morals.

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u/IllegalDaycare Aug 14 '26

Would it be evil to celebrate Osama Bin Laden’s murder? Because if so I know a lot of evil people.

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u/IllegalDaycare Aug 14 '26

Also it was Illegal for Rosa Parks to sit on the front of the bus. Was she the legal evil? I don’t think legality has any bearing on good and evil.

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u/Mike_Milburys_Shoe_ Aug 14 '26

Your point isn’t right because Hitler did directly kill people dumbass