As a British lad, I’ve been keeping tabs on the news about this guy and the wide support he’s getting.
With so much support, surely the public will get him out of jail just to spite the bastard rich kids and their CEO baron fathers?
The Man who was shot allowed a massive corporation to dangle its strings over people’s lives, medication being pulled away which is horrifying to me who uses the NHS as my primary medical service for hearing.
What do you think? Will Luigi “The CEO Reaper” Mangione ever get out of prison?
I think murder is murder but that doesn’t mean that things like self defence aren’t morally justifiable.
Murder is murder in the simple scenario but it gets more complicated when the murderer is not the initial aggressor.
There are many cases where someone killed the person who murdered their loved one, and they still got convicted of murder.
This case would be seen less like revenge killing, more vigilantism. AFAIK, Luigi didn’t have someone close to him that died due to denied insurance claims. This removed the emotional factor unlike if, say, a person killing the murderer of their child to avenge their child’s death. The averge person have less sympathy to vigilantes than, a person who is avenging the death of their loved ones. Also, the bureaucracy and paperwork behind insurance denials obfuscates who is really responsible. People easily understand stabbing, or shooting someone to death, but doesn’t really make the connection of people dying, with the insurance’s claim denials. There’s no blood, no violence, just a calm and “peaceful” pull on people’s life support. It doesn’t trigger the same emotional response as shooting someone in the middle of the street.