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Intent.
I'm not going to argue that one murder is more important to solve than any other but the reason, aside from the obvious, is because this was an assassination. Most murders are crimes of passion and most murderers don't plan to kill someone. Whoever this is had a plan and a motive and the aptitude to find a high profile person in a specific place at a specific time.
I won't shed a single tear or thought or prayer for that despicable CEO but I can also admit that murder is bad and people who have the gumption to plan out and then carry out something like this are also bad. Sometimes bad people do bad things for good reasons but that doesn't change the fact that they did a bad thing. Ends do not justify the means.
Comment by spartakooky at 07/12/2024 at 01:08 UTC
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Exactly. Him being rich is also a factor, the rich get better treatment.
But also, a regular person isn't usually the target of a planned assassination. We are never going to be able to dissuade all people in a fit of rage from murdering. But we can't, as a society, allow a murder to happen just because we don't like the target.
For the record, I hope he isn't caught. But I understand why we have to try to catch him.
Comment by Arrow156 at 07/12/2024 at 05:14 UTC
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The victim also did bad things and on a much larger scale; his victims are numerous and unnamed. I think this act of evil was transmuted into good.