The danger I see in people celebrating the murder of a health insurance executive is not that this is the start of a trend/uprising/revolution, because that’s not going to happen.
Most people don’t want to be murderers.
The danger is that all of the people who want this to be the start of a trend/uprising/revolution will then be disappointed when it turns out not to be that case and it’ll add to their disillusionment and odd imaginings about how the world functions, which we already have too much of these days.
I mean, it’s a fundamentally weird thing to say, to claim that people are going to be disappointed when a bunch of people don’t get murdered, but I have seen a strong strain of people who are posting about this who definitely think it’s the start of something, and I don’t know if that’s tied to the other theory that this was a professional hit (meaning: perhaps these people are thinking that, because they believe it was a professional hit, maybe there’s some shadowy organization out there who is embarking on a CEO murder plan), and that’s just more evidence of the rise of conspiratorial thinking that has been decidedly not good in recent years.
(Before anyone applies their imagined version of my stance on this topic and allows it to color the things I said above, sure, murder is bad, but I’m not losing any sleep over this particular guy getting murdered. I do lose a lot of sleep over the number of people in the modern world who believe/contribute to conspiracy theories.)
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