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momta

(4,115 posts)
6. I can try.
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 12:18 PM
Dec 15

First of all, I didn't really watch. Just listened. So the unmade bed didn't bother me.

He's talking, without ever saying so, about the UHC CEO murder.

He talks about the history of the Conquistadors and the Dutch East India Company, both endeavors that spread the responsibility for grave injustice so thin that it practically disappears.

Then he does a thought experiment about a "loophole" in the law that allows you to kill people--random people whom you've never met--with impunity, and to profit from it by getting their stuff. (I'm not really doing his thought process justice here.)

His conclusion is that this "loophole" does no one any good. Not the society, not the victims, and not the murderer himself, mostly because of the anger and resentment building up in society that leads to things like (though he never says so explicitly) the UHC murder, and the celebration of it by so many people.

He says it better.

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Very interesting. cachukis Dec 15 #1
Interesting thought exercise unweird Dec 15 #2
It's 24 minutes of Windy Apple Dec 15 #3
Care to summarize? PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 15 #4
I can try. momta Dec 15 #6
Thank you. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 15 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author haele Dec 15 #7
One way to not read into it would be by not clicking on the video. Iggo Dec 15 #5
Wow. Was hoping for more interesting responses. cachukis Dec 15 #9
Very interesting video Polybius Dec 15 #10
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