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How exactly does killing a CEO save 10k people?

Hint: it doesn't. In fact, the only result I can imagine from this is the opposite. After all, UHC will probably need to pay their CEO (if anyone takes the job) more for a while, to overcome the risk of being murdered. So if CEO pay meant fewer claims being paid out, after this they'll probably pay out even fewer.

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Your argument is that the reason they were not paying out more claims is because they had to compensate their CEO?

This isn't my argument. This is the argument of many people who think the murder is justified, including the parent comment which implied this is a simple 1 person vs 10,000 people trolley problem.

I am pointing out how silly that line of thinking is.

With this line of reasoning, the french revolution was about the stipend of the King.

Have you ever seen The Dark Knight? There's this quote about sending a message.

Makes perfect sense to justify killing people on the sidewalk in real life by quoting philosophy from the Joker. That’s the sign of a strong and correct moral foundation.

Gotcha, so 10k lives weren't actually saved, but a "message" was sent.

Cool.

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