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We've had attempts on the life of the President, and a literal CEO gunned down in the street. It's amazing how quickly this got normalized.

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What's amazing is the cynical moral calculus people like yourself engage in when you completely discount some types of human lives, but then display this theatrical shock at the notion that the lives of your personal mythological figures - Presidents and "literal" CEOs - might not be utterly sacrosanct in everyone's eyes, the way they are in yours.

How many lives is a CEO's life worth to you? How many lives is "the life of the President" worth?

Another shooting. Predictable. What say you? As I said, this is going downhill, fast, because people like you normalize it.

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