Yeah, thats just my inner demon that wants to watch the world burn peeking out.
You do have a pretty grounded view on this. Imho. 
Oh, shit. Sorry. Forgot about that.
Don’t you dare. That’s why it’s food porn.
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I don’t think its bad ass. I just think he got what he deserves.
Unfortunately, all of the people who died from his decisions won’t be getting what they deserved. Thats where the theft beyond dollar value occurs.
There’s a reason we call it the legal system rather than the justice system.
Asiago buns it is then!
I made a giant philly steak out of the one on the left. 2 lbs. Of shredded steak, provolone, etc. It was a monster!
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I don’t know enough about what he did or didn’t do to make a judgment like that. Was he behaving unethically while conducting his business? The problem is that some people would consider the denial of any claim to be unethical at best, morally reprehensible at worse.
Again, all going back to that nefarious little idea of being entitled to the fruits of someone else’s labor. Once you have that idea and back it up with a sense of moral righteousness, you can justify gulags and worse.
Yeah, see, I don’t see it like that.
I see the executive as the one who felt entitled to keep money that every taxpaying citizen in the US was paying.
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Agree to disagree?
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Definitely disagree on this one. Believing that he did something wrong definitely comes from the idea that healthcare is a right, or similar sentiments that set healthcare apart from other goods and services in the marketplace.
Running a profitable insurance company, which I’m glad exist to insure me against unanticipated outcomes, isn’t a reason to execute someone.
Ok. I’ll let you have the last word.
Sorry I meant to say agree to disagree, and then have the last word.
I get it that healthcare is touchy for a lot of good reasons, which is all the more reason why reason should guide us, not the feels. Simply declaring that you want the good things to happen won’t make it so. It reminds me of an old Eisenhower quote.
WOMAN: The Democrats have made mistakes, but aren’t their intentions good?
EISENHOWER: Well, if the driver of your school bus runs into a truck, hits a lamppost, drives into a ditch–you don’t say he had good intentions. You get a new bus driver.
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Sounds like capitalism to me. Once you need to make room for profit, you pay people what their labor is worth, at best, minus the amount necessary to make a profit. It is not an equal exchange. As that gap widens, you get the communists entering the picture. In this case it was the executioner.
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Then regime change in Iraq entered the room.
So if someone runs a company and is a “job creator,” (I hate that term) but everyone who works for them is a “wealth creator,” who is taking the fruits of someone else’s labor?
There is no taking in a consensual agreement. The employee is free to pursue other opportunities. The employer is also free to close their business. And so on…
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I am unsurprised by your perspective.
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A wise man once said;
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You can support capitalism while also acknowledging that it doesn’t benefit people equally. It is exploitive, almost by definition, and certainly in practice. Keep in mind, child labor wasn’t made illegal in the US because of the efforts of capitalists.
Literally no capitalist anywhere has ever made the argument that capitalism will benefit everyone equally.
Leftists are the one with “equity” in their vocabulary. Hopefully they are in their dying gasps here in the USA and liberal capitalists will regain control of the Democrats.
That’s fine in a utopia but not in a civilized society. Apparently, you have very wealthy individuals who want the benefits and protections such a society offers (you don’t see them moving to Africa, Asia or South America) without paying for it. Didn’t Musk get tax payer money to help build his ugly death machines?