Still, Amazon’s Gupta said that despite problems with the U.S. healthcare system, actions like Thompson’s murder cannot be normalized.

“Last week was horrifically shocking,” he said. "Are there going to be copycats? That is unacceptable.

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    “Our health system needs to be better … There’s a lot of things that should cause a lot of outrage,” Amazon Pharmacy Chief Medical Officer Vin Gupta said. “It’s also true that that (killing) should not have happened. There cannot be this false moral equivalence in our discourse.”

    speech-side-r-1Amazon Pharmacy’s Chief Medical Officer is named Vin Gupta, you say?speech-side-r-2victim-of-communism

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      There cannot be this false moral equivalence in our discourse

      Correct, the shooter killed one CEO whereas the insurance industry is responsible for ~70,000x as much death every single year. One is clearly morally worse

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      Death Note but light kills all the very publicly known CEOs and politicians would be a very short and very happy story.

      Man was watching TV news to find out who to kill when he could have just went on Wikipedia’s top richest people list.

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        Even from the perspective of his dumbass plan to become worshipped as a god or whatever it makes way more sense to just kill everyone with money and power around the world to create a power vacuum (along with killing off all religious leaders so as to scratch out any competition) than to kill off powerless people already in prison

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        Not just TV news. Police and prison data. Even if we assume they’re all guilty, he killed a lot of guys who were already apprehended and not any danger anymore. He didn’t even solve any crimes.