A good lawyer might argue insanity from that. You never know what the jury will buy. Insurance companies are not loved.

I agree that murder is not a solution, but the reality is that we need a real health care system.

Murder is the problem. I'm not sold it isn't the solution.

I think the idea that it can never be justified is what has kept the entrenched status quo in place for so long, and what makes change seem so impossible.

I notice that murder is apparently eminently justifiable when corporate profits or geopolitical influence are threatened.

You can't post like this here and we ban accounts that do, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

And then later: "Now my own chronic back pain wakes me in the night, screaming in pain."

What an interesting coincidence that he developed a medical condition that wakes him with screaming as well.

It's almost like there is some mechanism by which physical traits from the parent can be inherited by the offspring.

Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos (hEDS) can cause Small Fiber Neuropathy and back pain, as well as poor healing from surgery. It’s also more common in engineering type people, higher IQ, ADHD, anxiety disorder etc

It’s probably the most under-diagnosed condition in general. It’s also autosomal dominant. Can present as psychosomatic - gaslighting from doctors is typical.

It’s a shame more people don’t know about it because there are ways to effectively treat it - it’s an area where patient communities are far ahead of the medical community. So this could be a failure on two fronts, a failure of insurance but even if they had unlimited coverage there still would have been a failure in treatment.

You are talking about schizophrenia, right?

My grandfather suffered chronic sciatic nerve pain. My father suffered chronic sciatic nerve pain. Now I, too, suffer chronic sciatic nerve pain.

I wonder why that is?

You have no idea how bad it can get.

No, surely it's made up. Nevermind: how foolish was I...

I don't have sciatic pain, thank God, but I have bulging discs from a spinal compression injury. The first few months were excruciating -- I couldn't exist without horrific pain, no position I could lay in, sit in, stand in, etc., would provide any relief. I couldn't stand fully upright for weeks. And, even post-recovery, the last 2 years haven't exactly been pleasant. I am still managing my lower back on a day-to-day basis but I am primarily pain-free today.

Chronic pain really takes you somewhere else mentally. Now that I am, for the time being, on the other side of it, it has also made me extremely empathetic to people who suffer through it.

His X profile picture showed an X-ray of him with 4 screws in his lower spine that was likely due to an injury he suffered as he was very athletic.

Reposting since my other comment is hidden under a flagged comment.

It really sounds like he has hEDS. Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos (hEDS) can cause Small Fiber Neuropathy and back pain, as well as poor healing from surgery. It’s also more common in engineering type people, higher IQ, ADHD, anxiety disorder etc

It’s probably the most under-diagnosed condition in general. It’s also autosomal dominant. Can present as psychosomatic - gaslighting from doctors is typical.

It’s a shame more people don’t know about it because there are ways to effectively treat it - it’s an area where patient communities are far ahead of the medical community. So this could be a failure on two fronts, a failure of insurance but even if they had unlimited coverage there still would have been a failure in treatment.

He could have asked for charity, or asked hi multi-millionaire grandfather or fabulously wealthy family for help, or sued the insurance company, or taken out loans, or made a ton of money of his own and paid cash and negotiated directly with the providers, or mortgage the family mansion, sell everything he owns. There are millions of things he could have done.

"Nothing you can do about it" is just a lie people tell themselves to justify violence.

Well...he _did_ did something about it

I don’t think that solved his problem.

If his problem was feeling hopeless in a world outside of his control: well he may have solved that, regardless of whatever else happens.

Well, it fixed a perceived wrong. Oftentimes injustice is what actually hurts.

I do believe, though, that there is a vast spectrum of behaviours in between non violent inaction and an isolated random killing, that make a lot more sense in every way and that is called politics.