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You're just a contrarian who willfully ignores context. It is nice that such a deeply divided country can briefly snap into class consciousness and agree on something for once. Nothing of value was lost.
Comment by Emergency_Statement at 07/12/2024 at 21:32 UTC
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Nothing of value was lost, except of course for the respect of the norm that daylight assassinations in the middle of the street are bad. Yes, nobody feels bad about this particular guy. But the broad support for this murder does normalize future similar situations. Is it now ok to murder the CEO of a slightly less rapacious company? After that, does it eventually become ok to murder the assistant manager of Walmart because he refused a return? The problem here isn't one monster getting killed. It's that it offers tacit permission for our entire society to become a bit more monstrous. And that's really not a good thing. We can all see how we got to this point, but people being gunned down in the street is BAD.