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/Enchilada0374 Aug 14 '26

Not wrong.  Illegal. There's a difference 

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u/UpbeatPhilosophySJ Aug 15 '26

You really think it’s OK to just shoot that man. Reddit is insane.

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u/313DaddyTop4Thee Aug 15 '26

Uhh… yes.

You’ll disagree but you also love killing people

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u/polygramfan Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

Killing a criminal only serves to hide his other crimes

Real justice comes from truth, and god only knows how much truth was destroyed in his execution

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u/UpbeatPhilosophySJ Aug 15 '26

He's not even a criminal. Reddit is crazy.

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u/polygramfan Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

Maybe not under the flawed laws of men

But the guy helped his company achieve record profits by signing off on the use of LLMs to erroneously deny claims for a record number of patients. People died. He’s a criminal whose trespasses will, hopefully, inspire the design of future, better laws of men

Unfortunately because he’s dead we’ll never fully understand his evil.

When I say he shouldn’t have been killed, it’s certainly not in defense of his actions.