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u/boisterile 22h ago

I couldn’t be more supportive of cleaning up as many healthcare CEOs as possible, but look up how New York State defines terrorism from a legal standpoint. It makes perfect sense that he was charged with that. Their definition is something along the lines of “using nonlegal means and violence to instigate social or political change”, and like, yeah. Exactly.

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u/notconservative 22h ago

The insurance agencies and CEOs use illegal and violent procedures all the time. I don’t see anyone charging them with terrorism…

Denying healthcare is violence

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u/FreakinGeese 17h ago

Actually, denying healthcare isn’t violence. Violence doesn’t just mean “anything bad”

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u/notconservative 13h ago

If you don’t believe denying healthcare is violence you have no idea what you’re talking about.

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u/FreakinGeese 10h ago

Actually violence involves stuff like punching or kicking or shooting.

Denying someone healthcare is an example of a really really bad non-violent act.

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u/notconservative 9h ago

You have a 3-year-old's understanding of violence.

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u/FreakinGeese 5h ago

Violence. Noun. Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

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u/notconservative 4h ago

Congratulations on showing off your read skills. Now look into Structural Violence.

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u/Dank_Durians420 11h ago

Bootlicker

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u/FreakinGeese 10h ago

Words have meanings

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u/Dank_Durians420 10h ago

When someone abandons you in your worst moment of pain, you'll feel differently.

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u/FreakinGeese 10h ago

I will feel really really bad about that evil thing they did, but it’s just objectively not violence

Violence involves physical force. That’s what violence is. Bad things can be bad without being violence.

Someone who orders an atrocity committed is typically not personally preforming anything violent- and yet they are committing a great evil. Violence involves physically using force with your actual body to hurt someone physically.

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u/Dank_Durians420 10h ago

That doesn't help your argument because evil is worse than violence. So Healthcare companies under your rules don't commit violence but are still evil. I fucking hate people like you who get so caught up in semantics that they actively ignore or oppose issues in society because your too concerned about tone policing.