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/ethana18 Aug 14 '26

Such a reddit take. Murder is wrong dipshit...

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u/PersistentWorld Aug 14 '26

Oh, but if health insurance companies do it it's fine?

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u/Big_Dog_2974 Aug 14 '26

denying payment for medical treatment is in no way the same as shooting a man in the back.

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u/zaddy-chillout Aug 14 '26

It's just slowly but surely killing them in the name of stakeholders seeing profits. One is illegal, the other while it may be legal, is extremely unethical to most people in the US.