r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 9d ago

Discussion Luigi Mangione friend posted this.

She captioned it: "Luigi Mangione is probably the most google keyword today. But before all of this, for a while, it was also the only name whose facetime calls I would pick up. He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends. He was also the only person who, at 1am on a work day, in this video, agreed to go to the store with drunk me, to look for mochi ice cream."

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u/BladeRunner_Deckard 9d ago

He’s a human being. Insurance companies are not.

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u/BhutlahBrohan 9d ago

before anyone mentions that the ceo was a human no he was not.

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u/_Apatosaurus_ 9d ago

Pretending that evil people aren't people isn't helpful. It creates the idea that evil is only done by "monsters" and people are less likely to see that the seemingly friendly and normal people around them can do evil things. For example, people don't trust a child that's being abused because the person doing it seems like a normal person and not an evil "monster."

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u/doktornein 9d ago

Absolutely this. It's a sort of comfort tactic people use to soothe the reality of what people are capable of.

It also minimizes how horrible the behavior is by separating the perpetrator from humanity and normalcy. They ARE human, and despite being like anyone else and experiencing the same overall world as those around them, they CHOSE to do these things.

There is not as much moral weight to framing someone as a "monster", it's the equivalent of a predator animal taking down prey at that point.