The UnitedHealthcare Murder was Justified According To This Generation

Описание: According to polls, a shocking number of Americans support Luigi Mangione and the murder of Brian Thompson. What does that say about our shifting morality as a country?

Show Notes

An Axios poll recently revealed that a disturbing number of Americans support Luigi Mangione and his decision to murder UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. So much so that movements are spreading throughout Twitter and Instagram, to educate potential jury members about “Jury Nullification” or the process in which a jury declares someone is technically guilty but morally correct. If this happened to be the verdict during Mangione’s trial it would, hypothetically, allow him to walk free.

On today’s episode we’ll discuss Jury Nullification and review the events of the shooting, briefly, before we recap the most recent wave of headlines. Then, we turn our focus to the meat of the episode; when is murder justified? And why are there so many movies and TV shows about average men taking matters into their own hands when the system fails to intervene?

We’ll also attempt to tackle the sticky subject of healthcare reform, and ask whether or not the CEOs of these major companies could actually make change if they wanted to, or if their hands are tied by their obligation to maximize profit for their shareholders? Because if the Brian Thompsons of the world are supposedly powerless to fix the predatory practices of their companies…then who has the power? Is it us, the voters? Can we all agree that healthcare is broken and vote for a new system? Is it possible to ‘grass roots’ a solution? Well, no. In this unique circumstance, the average voter might actually be helpless to change the system, and we’ll explain why.

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https://apnews.com/article/unitedheal...
https://apnews.com/article/unitedheal...
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/unit...
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https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/unit...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2...