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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago

It's only murder if you can't afford to defend yourself in court ... or if you can literally buy off the police ... or the judge ... or the entire court system ... or the state ... or even buy the entire country's government

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 38 points 2 weeks ago

Switch the top and bottom panels. Leave the "dead patient" panel labeled as 'murder'. Re-label the "dead CEO" panel as 'self-defense'.

[-] PedroG14@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago
[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

If it's justified, it's not murder, it's called justifiable homicide.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Murder is just illegal homicide; being justified doesn't make it legal. This is one of the many many many misalignments of legality and morality.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

The funny thing too is a lot of American's are for the death penalty so 🤷‍♂️

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

I'm against the death penalty as a function of the legal system, but when the legal system is no longer effective other means become necessary.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I bet every $100 in a billionaires account is someones life destroyed in some poor country.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I believe the standard theory is at a certain threshold success is measured by those you have stepped on to climb higher. I'm not sure there's a set benchmark worth but I can guarantee you by the time you hit a billion you have for sure negatively impacted someone's life to get where you are.

Excess wealth needs to be banned but for it to truly work the majority of people need to see it and sadly we live in a world where too many people see themselves as embarrassed billionaires simply waiting for their opportunity.

I make damn good money. I have more in common with the man begging on the corner than I do with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, et al. More people need to come to terms with that reality.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

$100,000,000 that's it. At that point we give you a gold "I won capitalism," trophy, and you either retire, and are taxed at 100% of assets above $100,000,000 or, you don't and are taxed at 100% on assets above $100,000,000. This applies to both liquid and non-liquid assets.

Also you can leave your children $5,000,000 in total assets per child over your entire lifetime. The rest of your estate goes into The Sovereign Fund for Humanity's Poor.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I'd argue that's still way too high. Hell even 10$ million is potentially still too high lol

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 week ago

It's not murder cause it generates profit in our economic system.

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

First rule of capitalism is that it's morally fine if you earn money out of it AND you're rich.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Is self-defense murder, or just sparkling killing?

[-] PixellatedDave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

People with this amount of money just want it all.

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