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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by xyzzy4747 on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:20AM (#42409201)
It's a little different when a jury of your peers convicts you of a crime which was democratically passed by a legislature, versus a lone gunman who feels he is the judge, jury, and executioner.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by tossandthrow on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:22AM (#42409234)
Why? Apparently something excused murder in the death row case?

So expressing the sentiment that nothiong excuses murder and still having a death row is just I congruent and wrong.

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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by xyzzy4747 on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:25AM (#42409274)
In the death row case, the capital punishment isn't murder if you use classic definitions. If you change the definitions then it's only murder if you equate all homicide to murder.

And yes, both the will of the people and tradition can justify capital punishment.

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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by tossandthrow on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:36AM (#42409416)
That's fair. And in that vein the current killing of the ceo can not rightfully be deemed a murder as no one have been convicted of such.

But then again, the society apparently defines the quality of a killing - only future history will tell if this is a murder, and thst can go back and forth a lot depending on public sentiment.

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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by mdanger007 on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:23AM (#42409246)
America is the land of stand your ground laws in which a citizen may legally take a life if they feel endangered. Let's not forget the 1000 or so police kill every year.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by mrbungie on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:21AM (#42409225)
The point here is that "democratically passed legislature" is not at people's service.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by analog31 on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:29AM (#42409320)
An elected legislature is a pipe dream in a country with gerrymandering.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by SauciestGNU on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:38PM (#42414200)
Forget gerrymandering, a representative government is impossible as long as the Senate still gives the same weight to the 15 people in North Dakota as it does the 40 million in California.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by xyzzy4747 on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:24AM (#42409257)
It's the least bad system.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by OutOfHere on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:30AM (#42409342)
It's legalized corruption to the max. It's the worst implementation of the least bad system.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by xyzzy4747 on Friday December 13, 2024 @11:10AM (#42409820)
If the U.S. is leading the world's economy with high standards of living, maybe it is only a bad implementation in some aspects but not all.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by foul on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:27AM (#42409298)
It's justified when the committee is large enough and regulated enough?
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