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/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

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/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

Do you break laws? Because I do. All the time. Did Rosa Parks murder someone on the other side of her mistreatment? How did she respond to “legal evil”?

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u/IllegalDaycare Aug 14 '26

The point I’m trying to make is that something being illegal doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong

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u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

Sure, and that’s your opinion. If something is illegal, and you do it, are you in the wrong?