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Robert Mitchell Evans's avatar

"... folks who are saying out loud that it is Good, Actually, that a man be killed because health care providers are a pain in the ass to deal with. " That is a bit too flippant Sonny. The pain and anger that's driving such comments is not the same irritation that comes from dealing with your local cable provider who is also a pain in the ass to deal with but rather from suffering physical pain and suffering or watching a loved one suffer because for someone else it's profitable. It would not be hard at all to extend the metaphor of 'red rooms' to the for profit health insurance industry. Personally, I do not cheer or even jest about Thompson's murder. I can however *understand* the enormous pain that drives the anger. Pain is the cultural poison of our time. Lucas had it wrong it is not fear that becomes hate it is pain that drives people into irrational hatred, from mass shooters to Thompson murder (likely but unproven,) to Trump's election the real root cause is pain.

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Anne's avatar

I understand the frustration with the for profit health care industry - but I take no pleasure in the killing of a man who happens to be the CEO of one of those companies. I take no pleasure in vigilante justice. I hate that so many have been praising the killing. I would much rather we implement health care for all and turn any for profit companies remaining into non profit companies. I know people have died due to the decisions of the man's company and others like it. But killing him solves nothing.

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