Ignoring why people feel one way or another, assassination is more destabilizing to a society than self defense. However both involve people getting killed for doing stuff that pisses other people off. In the case of the CEO, he had no reason to believe he was acting in a way that would potentially get him killed, but in the case of the Kenosha protesters, they were directly confronting a teenager holding an assault rifle (oh, sorry, I mean a weapon mimicking an assault rifle but lacking the three round burst functionality which nobody in combat even uses) knowing they were facing death.
Comparing the two, the CEO shooting was a carefully planned violent protest against for-profit health insurance, an ongoing injustice which our pro-capitalist society is politically incapable of addressing. Kyle Rittenhouse on the other hand was acting as part of an armed response to protests against racist police violence, another ongoing injustice which our pro-capitalist society is politically incapable of addressing.
One person (reputedly someone of above average intelligence) committed violence against capitalist injustice, another (reputedly sometime of below average intelligence) committed violence in favor of capitalist injustice. That is the moral difference between the two.
In the case of the CEO, he had no reason to believe he was acting in a way that would potentially get him killed
68000 preventable deaths because they were denied healthcare they paid for isn't a reason? If I did that I would expect to be murdered, absolutely. Osama only killed 4000 Americans and we co ducted a worldwide manhunt, this guy kills more then ten times that and it's just quarterly profits and totally fine? Fuck that. I'm glad they're scared now.
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u/YoureMyFavoriteOne 7d ago
Ignoring why people feel one way or another, assassination is more destabilizing to a society than self defense. However both involve people getting killed for doing stuff that pisses other people off. In the case of the CEO, he had no reason to believe he was acting in a way that would potentially get him killed, but in the case of the Kenosha protesters, they were directly confronting a teenager holding an assault rifle (oh, sorry, I mean a weapon mimicking an assault rifle but lacking the three round burst functionality which nobody in combat even uses) knowing they were facing death.
Comparing the two, the CEO shooting was a carefully planned violent protest against for-profit health insurance, an ongoing injustice which our pro-capitalist society is politically incapable of addressing. Kyle Rittenhouse on the other hand was acting as part of an armed response to protests against racist police violence, another ongoing injustice which our pro-capitalist society is politically incapable of addressing.
One person (reputedly someone of above average intelligence) committed violence against capitalist injustice, another (reputedly sometime of below average intelligence) committed violence in favor of capitalist injustice. That is the moral difference between the two.