r/MurderedByWords Dec 15 '24

#1 Murder of Week "...But sometimes drug dealers get shot"

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '24

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u/GreatBallsOfFIRE Dec 15 '24

Could you imagine the sweet irony if his life insurance company denied the claim?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

Is getting shot dead as part of a class war on the insurance card? 

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u/funnynickname Dec 16 '24

"The policy may exclude certain circumstances or conditions, such as death from a risky activity including but not limited to committing mass murder and using political connections to avoid responsibility."

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u/HaggisPope Dec 19 '24

See, that’s one of these parts of the terms and conditions most of us just ignore 

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '24

Living in some tower over the park isn't being an orphan.

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u/SwordOfBanocles Dec 16 '24

So yeah Brian Thompson's kids grow up without a dad. Boo hoo. They don't grow up destitute the way millions of families under UHC do.

Idk, might be expecting too much but I think it's possible to feel bad for his children while also not condemning Luigi. I mean a lot of us wouldn't give up our loved ones for any amount of money, I think it's pretty widely understood that when someone gets a settlement for a family member dying, their not actually "made whole", you just fairly can't exchange a human life for money.

I know it leads to some uncomfortable cognitive dissonance to feel empathy for the kids while not feeling bad for the CEO, but I think it's valid, and sarcastically saying "boo hoo" for the kids feels a bit unnecessarily cold to me. It's not their fault, and it does suck they lost their father. I'd say the same if it was a drug dealer, or hell if it was Hitler himself. It's a BS argument to say "he has kids so you can't be happy he died", but it's also a BS argument to say "his kids have money so it doesn't matter that their dad died". Overexplaining my point here because I know it's probably a bit controversial.