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Daily Discussion Thread: 🦔🦡🦚 Thursday 12 December, 2024
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There’s a quote from somewhere that says something like ‘a person is more certain to go to jail for killing 1 person than 1000’. I’ve probably got the words wrong because couldn’t remember where it’s from, but the meaning is true. Systemically killing people or letting them die from political or corporate actions is rarely subject to justice. The death of one CEO won’t change anything. I do feel sorry for the alleged assassin though, his actions will be for nothing. Maybe there’ll be some temporary discourse, but it will be business as usual for the insurance companies.
Reminds me of a Pratchett quote, from Feet of Clay: "And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions."
It’s a thing. It’s called social murder
That might be similar to Stalin's quote:
“a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic”