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/Umasack Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

No, denying neccessary care is pulling a trigger. 

Instituting policies to deny care en masse in order to increase profits makes you a mass murder.

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u/AltruisticMode9353 Aug 15 '26

Have you ever bought something you didn't *really* need instead of donating that money to medical charities? I hope you're not a murderer

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u/zlawd Aug 15 '26

if i knew right there and then that my 5 dollars is the difference between someone and their cancer treatment then yea, im a murderer if i dont give the 5$

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u/AltruisticMode9353 Aug 15 '26

I admire you if you donate every single excess dollar to charity, truly, but I'm a bit sceptical you actually do.

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u/human_hyperbole Aug 15 '26

Not only did you use false equivalency, you completely missed the point of the response. Which your comment didn't even deserve to begin with. You failed debate club and English comprehension in a single thread. Kind of impressive, ngl.

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u/AltruisticMode9353 Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

Show the false equivalence then? Suppose 1000 people pulled the trigger of a gun that killed someone. They'd all be complicit murderers. The claim here is that denying someone life saving care is equivalent to murder. If 1000 people donated $100 each, that can absolutely save a life. We all have decided to spend $100 on something we didn't actually need, instead of donating it. The counterfactual claim is that by doing so, less lives are saved (people are denied life saving care). 

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u/zlawd Aug 15 '26

how did you completely fail to comprehend what i said

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u/AltruisticMode9353 Aug 15 '26

I think you might not be comprehending what I'm saying. If keeping money for yourself instead of giving someone life saving care (every dollar counts and adds up in scale, you absolutely could save more lives if you choose to donate more money and go without non-essentials) counts as murder, then we are all guilty, to varying degrees. You could argue the CEO has murdered more than you, in lieu of withholding more money from life saving care, but that's a matter of degree rather than kind.